GOALIE MASK

At Streamline Automation, we had many prospective clients that wouldn’t commit to the purchase of our equipment until we showed them that our system could achieve the results that they required. They would send us whichever project they were currently working on, or the big one that made them come find us in the first place, and ask us for proof of concept.

As a technician at the University of Alberta, I worked on an enormous variety of projects. Each one presented its own unique challenges. And so quite often at Streamline I found myself prototyping some new project, and taking pictures to send to a client who was really hoping I could deliver the goods.

That is how one day I found myself scanning and machining a giant goalie mask.

The goalie mask was to be hung on a wall. No one would have access to the back of the mask, so the back didn’t need to be reproduced. In fact, it would be more convenient if the back of the mask were flat, for easy attachment to the wall. This of course made the fabrication easier, but the front of the mask still had enough detail that it needed to be scanned from multiple angles to adequately capture its geometry.

Once multiple scans were performed, those scans needed to be fused into a single file.

Milling on this project was straightforward, with all the 3-axis machining happening from a single direction.