LaserCutZ was commissioned to fabricate new frame for a metal sculpture to be installed in NYC subway station. Whats needed to be done is to cut existing sculpture metal frame, expended it in size to meet new dimension requirements by artist and then weld new frame together. Aside form making new frame we needed to make plate that will hold sculpture face. In order to do this, we 3D scanned existing metal plate and created cut shape based on original holder plate. When form 3D scan we extracted 2D data to a DXF file so we can cut new plate. Those plates are rather large and thick 3/8″ steel, total size was larger then 5x10ft so we separated art into 2 sections so it can be cut form 4x8ft steel sheet. We used our fiber laser to cut both of those metal plates. When finished they got welded together but deep structural welding to be sure that plates hold well together. Newly fabricated plate got counter sunk holes and required by client and then it was fitted to extended frame structure.
