IDEAL software - Designers quickly develop ideas and accurately convey them to engineers

摘要

Consumers often make product choices based on aesthetics, gravitating toward the "look" or "feel" of an item. Such purchasing habits force manufacturers to constantly revamp, improve, or just make their products different to stay competitive. Success hinges on communicating new product ideas between industrial designers and engineers. To facilitate this communication, many manufacturers, especially those in the prototype and custom car industries, incorporate special industrial-design software that lets them quickly and effortlessly progress from initial 2D design sketches, to 3D modeling, to the CAD stage, and onto manufacturing. Five Axis Models of Huntington Beach, Calif., is one of those manufacturers. The shop builds prototype cars working off existing designs from automotive design studios, which are its primary customers. However, about once a year, a major automotive company, in this case Scion, asks the shop to design and build a promotional show car.