Barbershops have them. Nail salons have them. Even optometrists have them. But I didn’t think we’d ever 
have them. I’m referring of course to “walk-ins”, as in customers who stop in seeking services without having an appointment. Well, we just had our first-ever walk-in client after 21 years of business. so this is the perfect time to make it clear that at NVision, walk-ins are welcome.
Here’s the story: A national marketing services provider, whose client is one of the country’s largest optical retailers, invented a display to showcase their client’s ability to provide a multitude of different sunglass lens coatings. The display uses small plastic rings about 2″ in diameter, into which the optical retailer can snap a sample lens, which can then be looked through by customers.
The problem was that the marketing services provider didn’t have a CAD file from which to mass-produce the lens rings that those sample lenses snap into. What they needed was a CAD drawing of an existing ring. Their research told them that the best way to achieve that – that is, the best way to reverse engineer a part for which there is no CAD file – is by having a company like NVision scan it and then create the CAD drawing from their scan. Which brought their Retail Solutions Specialist to our door with the part.
We were able to quickly scan the lens ring using our HandHeld laser scanner and provide them with the CAD files they needed. Start to finish, the whole project took only a few hours and then our client’s rep was back in his truck with the files heading home. He told us that “this is likely the fastest I’ve seen a designer and a customer work together to get files that work for our process.”
I’m pleased to say that we’ll be seeing a lot more of that truck, too. You see, much of what that company produces is custom and they’ve already told us they’re looking forward to working with us on what they describe as their “next funky custom retail display stuff invention project”.
So there you have it. We’ve had our first walk-in client. Maybe there will be others in the future. Who knows? If this becomes a trend, there may even be a drive-thru lane in NVision’s future.
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