{"id":1441,"date":"2008-12-31T23:59:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T03:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2009-03-05T18:31:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T22:31:14","slug":"when-3d-spam-gets-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"Next Generation Product Development Tools – Part 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

The idea<\/em> for this series originated over a year ago with something I witnessed in Second Life: a mother and daughter collaboratively designing virtual clothes with the help of an in-world, user-created tool. I was astounded simply because I knew them to be unsophisticated computer users.<\/p>\n

The motivation<\/em> to write this series came shortly after, and mostly from what I learned subsequent to writing “A Virtual World-Based PLM for the Fashion Industry” (reLink<\/a>). How could I not<\/em> dive into this topic after learning of IBM’s work with FIT and also seeing what Optitex<\/a> was doing?
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\nAdd to these things the buzz surrounding Double Happiness jeans manufacturing<\/a> and it made sense to try to make sense of what was happening. After all, what I was seeing was my “Smiley Face Savvy” entry (reLink<\/a>) in the early stages of being realized.<\/p>\n

The Future of CAD is Immersive Simulation<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the other things that popped up on my radar around that time was a Design News podcast titled “Virtual Reality: The New Weapon In Product Design”<\/a>. Give it a listen and then take a look at the most recent virtual freeCAD application video:<\/p>\n

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No, Cobalt<\/a> on a computer monitor isn’t a virtual reality system of the sort mentioned in the podcast (at any mentioned pricepoint). And as far as CAD goes, freeCAD isn’t even close to being the equivalent of Pro\/ENGINEER or SolidWorks, let alone some of the simpler CAD systems floating around on the Net.<\/p>\n

But it’s a start.<\/p>\n

And while freeCAD isn’t something I can use professionally at this stage of its development, in eight or ten years I may very well be using it – or something spawned from it or influenced by it – to design products collaboratively with (overseas) clients. When that happens, it’ll sure beat sending CAD files asynchronously via email, which is what some companies are still doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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