Not exact matches
As we stood watching, Andreas etched a long sweeping roofline onto a tablet, and the
milling machine followed suit, carving a long line along a rough
clay silhouette of the existing A7.
Once a
clay model has been rough - cut by the
milling machines, each square inch of the model is meticulously finished by what Audi call a «multi-modeler».
Soon after this stage, the design can be tweaked in CAD software before being sent to a CNC
milling machine to slowly chip away at a life - size
clay model.
Situated next to a state - of - the - art
clay model CNC
milling machine, Sebastian talked us through an early design step where a basic sketch composed of a few lines can be
milled into an A7 - esc
clay model with the aim of getting an idea of defining curves and swoops.