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A body kit has to do more than look right in a rendering. Its surfaces must relate to the actual car, while the attachment points and matching panels need to work together. That makes the original vehicle an important design reference, not simply an object to photograph.
In a customer story supplied by Revopoint, Mr Takeda of Studio FinalTAKE explains how Trackit supports development under the SHIN-GI brand. The project connects vehicle capture with digital design and physical production, keeping the scanned car at the centre of the process.
Cover: The vehicle scan provides a shared reference for the overall body shape and local mounting details. Image supplied by Revopoint.
Start with the car and its attachment points
The team's earlier approach involved measuring the vehicle and developing the shape through clay models and repeated physical adjustments. Keeping both sides consistent was difficult, and checking every revision meant returning to the car.
Trackit is used near the beginning of development to record the exterior together with the positions relevant to fitting new parts. The useful result is not just a recognisable vehicle model. It is geometry that gives the designer a basis for placing and shaping the proposed components.
Reduce marker handling around painted surfaces
Mr Takeda highlights optical tracking without markers on the vehicle as a practical advantage. Applying and later removing many individual markers had been an additional job in the previous scanning process, especially when working across a large body.
For this workshop, the benefit extends beyond setup. Less marker handling and fewer rounds of attaching prototype parts mean less contact with the customer's car. The account describes reduced development effort and fewer opportunities to mark the painted finish; it does not provide a timed comparison or a guaranteed outcome for other vehicles.
Carry one digital reference into design and analysis
After capture, the vehicle data moves into CAD, where the body kit is developed against the original shape. This gives the team a way to consider the relationship between the left and right sides and check how proposed surfaces meet the car before making another physical version.
The workflow also includes computational fluid dynamics, or CFD, to evaluate aerodynamic behaviour as the shape is refined. Scanning supplies the geometric starting point; the design and aerodynamic work remain separate stages. A detailed scan alone is not evidence that a finished panel will achieve a particular aerodynamic result.
Use the design data beyond the screen
The completed CAD work feeds the next physical stage: prototypes can be 3D printed, while production parts can be made in fibre-reinforced plastic or carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic. The scan therefore supports a longer development chain rather than ending as a display model.
SHIN-GI's example is valuable because it combines the scale of a whole car with the smaller details that determine how an accessory mounts. It shows why body kit development benefits from considering both kinds of geometry together.
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Explore REVOPOINT Trackit for an optical-tracking approach to vehicle capture. This case concerns the original Trackit used by Studio FinalTAKE, rather than a demonstration of Trackit SR.
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