Alias as a second tool
Alias as a second tool
(OP)
We also have a seat of Alias at our company and would like to know how others are using Alias and the geometry coming out of it to SW. Right now we are using it as a powerful sketcher. ID makes a model and we (engineers) remodel the shape to make changes to the shape. Those changes would be height width changes. This is concurrent work with ID. Does anyone do it different? Has anyone found that having ID wait until the very end to make their cover fit the interior? TIA
KMaren
KMaren






RE: Alias as a second tool
We use ID surfaces either as an underlay or in a crunch, if the designer is good direct harvest from the model into UG NX 2. We are slowl adding more SWx seats.
I know Of Iders user with Rhino/Solidworks for manual CV pulling.
Hmm- cant height width changes be done in Photoshop?
RE: Alias as a second tool
Speaking of which, I'd recommend you get the ID done before the engineering arrangements. Often the subassemblies within a given product can be rearranged to fit the "skin". Also, the skin is the face of your product. (Why did the Edsel fail so miserably? It wasn't the engineering.) A good ID person will give not only a lasting appeal to a product, but also an intuitive interface--expanding the product's usefulness.
I often work concurrently with engineer teams as a ghost designer--especially for companies who know little or nothing about industrial design. We often start with the "look" of the product and work to get everything to fit. Of course, the industrial designer needs to have a clue about feasible engineering and manufacturing, or you'll be left merely with pretty pictures and impossible production.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reality is no respecter of good intentions.