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RESEARCH PRODUCT
VirDe: A new virtual reality design approach
Francesco CappelloTommaso Ingrassiasubject
EngineeringEngineering drawingProduct designbusiness.industryVirtual realitycomputer.software_genreVirtual reality - Simulation - 3D input device - CAD modelling - FEM analysesIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringVirtual machineIndustrial designModeling and SimulationNew product developmentDesign processbusinessSoftware engineeringEngineering design processSettore ING-IND/15 - Disegno E Metodi Dell'Ingegneria IndustrialecomputerInstructional simulationdescription
Virtual reality (VR), even if it does not represent any more a novel technology, is one of the most powerful tool to help designers during the development of new projects. This is proved by very numerous research activities related to this field. In this research, we have studied a new way to approach the development of a product. We present the ongoing development of a system, called VirDe, acronym of virtual design, which can allow the designers to perform the whole design process, from the modelling phase to the finite element method (FEM) simulation analysis, in a virtual reality environment. This new method allows remarkable time and money saving in the overall product design process, but the most important contribution of VirDe is that, as far as we concerned, there is no known similar approach which has been studying the simultaneous combination of CAD, FEM and virtual environment (VE).
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-10-21 |