Easy
to Learn
DeskArtes Design Expert
works with a standard Windows User Interface and uses intuitive
design methods resembling manual sketching. Design Expert can be
learned in days and mastered in weeks while other systems require
weeks of training and months of practice before a user can become
proficient.
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Free
of Charge
DeskArtes only charges for
the input / output data formats of the Design Expert. Teach yourself
to design and visualize first, and only pay for interchanging data
with other software packages.
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Fast
to Use
The modeling methodology and
user ergonomics with DeskArtes IDS and Design Expert have been
developed in conjunction with industrial designers facing real world
problems. Compared to other systems, the user can achieve a specific
goal using far fewer commands and interactions with DeskArtes Design Expert.
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The "build and
blend" methodology is a simple yet powerful approach to surface
modeling. DeskArtes Design Expert allows the designer to concentrate
on the creative aspects of design rather than the irritating and
unproductive direct manipulation of 3D model geometry.
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Manufacturable
Geometry
DeskArtes Design Expert
produces model geometry that, due to the constructive modeling
methodology, is always smooth, tangent continuous and manufacturable
by CAM technologies.
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Real-Time
3D Previewing
Models can be previewed in
3D interactively using OpenGL shading with support for real-time
rotation, zooming, panning, clipping, etc. Effects like texturing and
mirroring can be added.
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Communicate
in 3D
The most intuitive way to
present your ideas to your client and other groups of interest is to
show the real model. We offer you something which is close to that -
anyone having the Expert Series viewer program the View Expert can view
your models. Viewing models with the View Expert is so simple anyone can
do it! Moreover, he can make annotations to the model and send it back
with comments.
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DeskArtes Design Expert can
further process the output of CAD/CAM Links to generate STL format
which is used by rapid prototyping machines. The STL files are solid
models, as the unique technology from our data processing product
line has been integrated into Design Expert.
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Design geometry can be
accurately and reliably transferred from DeskArtes Design Expert to
other CAD/CAM/CAE systems using IGES or VDA-FS formats. |
DeskArtes
Modeling functions - Advanced Modeling made Easy |
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Industrial designers are
involved in a creative and innovative process. They need a design
tool which allows many ideas and approaches to be investigated
quickly. On the fly modifications and "what if" scenarios
need to be carried out at pace. Therefore the design environment must
be intuitive and unobtrusive. This requires a powerful modeler which
is easy to use. |
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Unlike other systems, with
DeskArtes Design Expert the user does not have to become a computer
expert to create complex surface models. The designer can achive
optimal results with minimum effort. Other vendors offer CAID
products using a technology base which has been primarily developed
to meet the needs of animators or engineers. Such tools are not very
well suited to the creative process. The tool can often be relegated
to the role of data capture and is usually performed by experts, who
have mastered the system after many months of trying.
The approach taken by
DeskArtes to the modeling dilemma is based on many years of
innovative research together with actual designers. The solution is
to is to first devise a conceptually simple but powerful methodology
and then develop the technology required. Modeling in DeskArtes is
based on a "Build and Blend" methodology.
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Build
3D surfaces are built from
profiles, silhouettes and cross-sections. Editing curves in two
dimensions using a two dimensional display and mouse is much easier
than editing surfaces in three dimensions. This approach of
describing 3D objects using 2D curves is very familiar to the
industrial designer and closely matches the traditional ways of working.
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Blend
Create more complex objects
by using advanced features such as surface trimming and blending. The
various blending tools offered by DeskArtes Design Expert include
rolling ball blend and variable radius blend. Surface building and
skinning from 3D curves, as well as local surface editing tools are
also supported as further design tools.
The "Build and
Blend" methodology allows the users to model objects far more
quickly than with other systems. The conceptual simplicity allows the
user to become productive in a fraction of the time that would be
required with other systems.
The modeling methodology
further allows the user to create products which are manufacturable.
The design can then be transferred directly to CAD/CAM systems for
manufacture, or Rapid Prototyping. |
