Virtual prototyping builds a navigable digital twin from your CAD so teams can inspect, measure and stress-test the design collaboratively. It replaces the waiting game between design revisions with continuous, visual review.
Current status and needs of the industry
Traditional appearance reviews generally use effect pictures or sludge models to review product styling. Using the effect picture review, you can only review the selected angle, a certain material or color for review, you can't modify the material color in real time, and you can't view the model of the review product from multiple perspectives. If the sludge model is used for review, the sludge model needs to be made. The cycle is long and the cost is high. When the model is slightly modified, the sludge model needs to be remade. Through the appearance virtual prototype, the 3D model can be visualized in real time, and the model can be interacted in real time, the modeling scheme can be changed, the material, color and scene can be changed, and the appearance of the product can be viewed from multiple perspectives in a simulated lighting environment. In addition, the appearance virtual prototype supports multi-platform display-PC end, helmet, cave, large screen, etc., and the same data of the appearance virtual prototype can serve a variety of businesses such as product design, verification, sales, maintenance training, etc.
Solution Ideas
Based on the customer's appearance review needs and the company's accumulation in the industry for many years, a virtual prototype solution based on 3D virtual reality core technology has been launched. The system architecture diagram of the solution is as follows:
1. Hardware base layer:
It is mainly composed of data storage servers, and the network environment can be deployed on the company's local area network and public Internet.
2. Software data support layer:
It consists of various product model data, model data collation module, model visualization function module and interactive function module. Product model data types include Croe model, Alias model, Rhino model, etc.; model data collation includes data lightweight processing, data fracture repair, data node adjustment, etc.; model visualization includes system simulation environment settings, model material addition, color adjustment, texture mapping, lighting layout, etc.; interactive functions include viewing angle switching, modeling scheme switching, material color switching, simulation environment switching, mechanism motion display, automatic path roaming, etc.
3. Front-end application layer:
The appearance virtual prototype supports viewing on different platform environments, and can support Windows PC side, helmet VR, stereo projection large screen, cave, etc.
Role and Value
Based on and far appearance virtual prototypes, enterprises can use the means of the scientific and technological era to conduct product appearance review, with user experience and participation as the core elements of product display review.
1. Use the appearance virtual prototype to replace the traditional effect picture for appearance review, which can flexibly review the product model from multiple perspectives, and can switch the modeling scheme in real time for multi-angle comparative review; it can show the movement of the product organization, such as the door opening and closing, etc.
2. Use the appearance virtual prototype to replace the traditional sludge model for appearance review, which can flexibly switch the simulation environment and view the appearance material and color of the product under different environments. And the use of appearance virtual prototypes instead of traditional sludge models can greatly shorten the product development cycle and reduce research and development costs.
3. Review the three-dimensional visual representation of the product based on VR virtual reality, so that the company can conduct a comprehensive and comprehensive review of the product, and break the language restrictions, so that all professionals can understand the product more easily and quickly, improving the quality and efficiency of product review.
4. Rich and diverse review interaction functions, providing a guarantee for product review decision-making. That is, it can perform multi-angle and same-screen display comparison of various product solutions, material color selection, institutional motion display, etc.; it can also simulate the working environment of the product, and can switch the environment in real time to see the status of the product in different environments.
5. The same data of the appearance virtual prototype can serve a variety of businesses such as product design, verification, sales, maintenance training, etc., which can save a lot of R&D costs for enterprises.
Appearance virtual prototype is a kind of appearance review solution independently developed by Hysim Company in accordance with the actual needs of enterprise product appearance review, which has solved the problems in product appearance review quality and review efficiency, avoided the shortcomings of traditional appearance review, subverted the appearance review mode of traditional enterprise products through appearance virtual prototype, and created a modern scientific and technological appearance review method with high quality, low cost and remarkable effect.
The practical application proves that the product solves the product appearance review needs of the enterprise in the new era situation, and can bring considerable economic and brand effects to the enterprise.