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Leap Motion Controller and NX

Leap Motion Controller and NX

RE: Leap Motion Controller and NX

Wow!

Best regards

Simon NX 7.5.4.4 MP8 and NX 8.5 (native) - TC 8 www.jcb.com

RE: Leap Motion Controller and NX

That is a really cool technology. I do not think I could use it for NX. I could not hand sketch my way out of a paper bag.

RE: Leap Motion Controller and NX

(OP)
We could imagine to use it for Synchronous Modeling or Subdivision Modeling (New in NX9), then have the capability to turn the model and have some functions at our fingertips thumbsup2


Regards
Didier Psaltopoulos
http://www.psi-cad.com

RE: Leap Motion Controller and NX

"It's just like 3-d printing.........revolutionary!!!!"

meh.....

Proud Member of the Reality-Based Community..

To the Toolmaker, your nice little cartoon drawing of your glass looks cool, but your solid model sucks. Do you want me to fix it, or are you going to take all week to get it back to me so I can get some work done?

RE: Leap Motion Controller and NX

I don't know, but a good quality 'Spaceball' in my Left hand and a 3-button Mouse in my Right has served me well for years, at least since Spaceballs have been around, which is actually longer than we've had the use of a Mouse, 3-buttons or otherwise, for cursor control, and more recently, to drag geometric 'handles' to control shape and/or parametric values of 3D features.

If you want my opinion, I suspect that support for 'touch-screen' technology will be around much sooner than an full-function interface to the 'Leap Motion Controller'. Then you might NOT have anything in your hands, just your fingers 2thumbsup

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

RE: Leap Motion Controller and NX

They are using the leapmotion controller. I miss this in my first read. Cool.

RE: Leap Motion Controller and NX

It looks like I might have been a bit premature in my dismissal of the likelihood of a 'Leap' interface being developed for NX, at least in terms of what one of our more creative users, in this case, Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla Motors fame, doing it himself using tools which were already part of NX:

http://community.plm.automation.siemens.com/t5/NX-...

Here's a more detailed article about the work that is being done as SpaceX:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/165858-elon-mus...

Note that I'm visiting the SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, CA week after next. Perhaps I can get a demo of their so-called 'Iron-Man lab'.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

RE: Leap Motion Controller and NX

I have one hooked up to 8 and it is pretty interesting. It leads me to believe that walking into a CAD houes of the future might look like a dance party if motion controlling continues to evolve.

RE: Leap Motion Controller and NX

No, it still has to be implemented, just that all the pieces and parts are there (if you have an NX Open license), but you have to put them together. And contrary to what was implied, SpaceX DID get some help from us. Elon Musk didn't whip this together all by himself, despite the fact that he's a very creative guy.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

RE: Leap Motion Controller and NX

Hi all,

Interesting to see active discussion about this. Two of my colleagues have leaps and they share some opinions you have posted. You really have to put your mind to using this new kind of motion control. It really is easier to use a common mouse and a spaceball because no applications have "real" interfaces, just ones thrown out there so lets see if this gets more interest. Some debate if this will ever triumph over kinect type motion capture and camera based applications. Maybe for office type applications it might but not in real VR/AR desktop applications and showrooms any time soon.

For now these guys say it is hard enough to learn to rotate a model let alone do something real creative when changing from traditional mouse and spaceball. I hope that it gets attention like SpaceX. Smart move to help out PRwise. Also to get it to general publics attention. More demand from customers, more focus on development :)

NH

RE: Leap Motion Controller and NX

This is an interesting discussion / device.
- Anybody at all had the smallest thought about ergonomics ?
Try stick your arms out, without support from the table, for say , 5 minutes.
It's called workout. People pay big money to do workout.
- 4 hours workout for your arms before lunch ?
- No thanks.

Regards,
Tomas


RE: Leap Motion Controller and NX

(OP)
Hi Tomas,

I agree with you. I can't imagine working many hours like that.

I thought only using it for simple design approach with subdivision modeling


Regards
Didier Psaltopoulos
http://www.psi-cad.com

RE: Leap Motion Controller and NX

Anyone how has ever using a cad system which utilized 'light-pens' would probably agree with you...

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

RE: Leap Motion Controller and NX

Maybe we could get controlers for hands and feet then we could get a full body workout while designing parts. :)

RE: Leap Motion Controller and NX

(OP)
Hi John

I remember my first professional use of CAD: CADAM in 1984 !!!


Regards
Didier Psaltopoulos
http://www.psi-cad.com

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