Understanding and Communicating Your Design through Visualization– Next Generation Design Podcast

What is digital visualization all about and how is it helping design engineers? To answer this question we first have to understand the types of visualization tools that are available and how they work. General visualization for design can include standard display, realistic rendering, and immersive 3D virtual reality. Standard display helps design engineers to provide better understanding to the shape of their design and the relationships between objects while also simulating and validating the operation of design. Realistic rendering is about helping to explain designs better to other people and understanding it in context of the environment. Lastly, Immersive 3D virtual reality provides realistic display in terms of scale and spatial relationship between objects.

In this episode of the Next Generation Design Podcast, our guests discuss digital visualization, an area that is growing rapidly across industries to provide an interactive design and evaluation environment for their products.

The main benefits of visualization tools include evaluating if the designs you’ve created are the way you want them, being able to accurately describe your designs to other people, while correlating you designs to something in the real world. When using visualization for the first time many often exclaim “Wow, now I get it! This is my design and I’m seeing it before it is manufactured, in a realistic way.”

Consumer experience has been what has led the way for how visualization in engineering has developed. From the design engineer perspective, it is augmenting processes already in place; and extension of the design environment with the click of a button to more accurately assess more design options and fine tune a product quicker than traditional processes.

Visualization and the digital twin is a critical cost saver in design engineering, and allows for early review of concepts; making proportion, scale, relationships easier to evaluate, allowing users to make decisions on them well prior to any physical production that would add cost and time to market.

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