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Product Design & 3D Modeling
Product design & 3d CAD Modelling
Industrial Design (ID) is the professional practice of designing products, devices, objects, and services used by millions of people around the world every day. It is a strategic problem-solving process that drives innovation, builds business success, and leads to a better quality of life through innovative products, systems, services, and experiences.
Industrial Design bridges the gap between what is and what’s possible. It is a trans-disciplinary profession that harnesses creativity to resolve problems and co-create solutions with the intent of making a product, system, service, experience, or a business, better.
At its heart, Industrial Design provides a more optimistic way of looking at the future by reframing problems as opportunities. It links innovation, technology, research, business, and customers to provide new value and competitive advantage across economic, social, and environmental spheres.
Industrial designers create and develop concepts and specifications that optimize the function, value, and aesthetics of products, environments, systems, and services for the benefit of the user, industry, and society. Industrial design involves combinations of the visual arts disciplines, sciences, and technology, and requires problem-solving and communication skills.
They typically focus on physical appearance, functionality, and manufacturability of a product, though they are often involved in far more during a development cycle. All of this ultimately extends to the overall lasting value and experience a product or service provides for end-users.
You will also develop skills in product design methods such as sketching and computer-aided design, fluid flow, power and energy, and materials selection that is ergonomic, functional, and appealing. You will gain a practical understanding of the product design lifecycle – from idea generation to prototyping and commercialization.
3D CAD Modeling
3D modeling or CAD (Computer Aided Design) allows engineers and designers to build realistic computer models of parts and assemblies.
These models can be then 3D Printed or can be used to run complex simulations. A wide range of parameters can be simulated such as strength or temperature resistance before any physical models have been created, enabling a much faster and cheaper workflow.
When using 3D CAD Modeling, you’re essentially creating a virtual reality object that can have all of the same properties as an actual physical object: material, weight, size, optical properties, physical properties, etc.
This allows us to create a virtual “model” of how the object will behave in the real world, even before it is ever built. This is where things get interesting and the math problems get insanely long.
With 3D CAD modeling, we can create assemblies of parts to see how they fit together, test how they will react to forces applied to them, drop objects to see if they will break, test the motion and interaction of moving parts within an assembly, test how fluids will flow through them, evaluate how they will be manufactured using simulations, and render near-perfect images to see how products will look in real life.
Advantages of 3D CAD Modeling in Mechanical Engineering Design:
- 3D can teach how shapes work in the real world
When sketching or drawing in 2D, it’s not always easy to envision the final shape of an object in three dimensions – especially if the geometry is complex. This means that there could be unexpected or unwanted results – like intersections or interferences between volumes – which can be very easily spotted and removed during the early concept stage just by creating a basic 3D model.
3D also allows for much greater and detailed control on the design, as it’s possible to inspect the curvature of surfaces in real-time by evaluating the reflections in the different views.
- Expand the design vocabulary
Some types of shapes and design features are very difficult to conceive, represent, and tweak in 2D. For this reason, knowing how to create 3D models gives designers the ability to increase their aesthetic vocabulary.
- Creates more realistic and detailed concepts for better design evaluation
The ability to model and render an object in a more realistic way gives designers an excellent way of evaluating the design before the construction of a prototype.
Physical models are still very important, but the industry trend is to limit their use to the minimum necessary and try to concentrate most of the creative design process in the digital stage to save time and money.
- Allows new creative workflows
3D should be used by designers as just one of their tools: there shouldn’t be necessarily a distinction between 2D and 3D, especially in the concept stage.
On the opposite, one of the most interesting applications of 3D is its use in combination with 2D techniques: this allows us to explore new creative workflows and increase quality and efficiency.
- Better communication with other members of the design team
While any good designer should be able to communicate his/her ideas through plain drawings and sketches, being able to deliver a 3D model certainly offers an added value.
- Different 3D modeling approaches available
There isn’t a single 3D modeling techniques: today a designer can choose among very different approaches: NURBS modeling, polygonal modeling, SubD modeling, parametric/algorithm/generative modeling, feature-based solid modeling, digital sculpting and also hybrid workflows that combine two or more of these types.
At Maxellences Engineering Technologies our Industrial Design and 3D CAD Modeling services provide solutions for futuristic and innovative designing of products, devices, and experiences.