Welcome to the future of design technology. In a useful shortcut, a designer at Ford Design Studio enters a virtual room from his office and starts using the Gravity Sketch or Virtual Reality tool to draw a 3D sketch.
He designs a virtual car around himself and adjusts the characteristics to suit him as a driver. This work is part of Ford's latest exploration of a new approach that puts the customer at the center of the design and helps reduce the time required to create a new vehicle.
Ford is proud to be the first car manufacturer to use the Gravity Sketch technology, the 3D virtual reality tool that allows designers to create more human-based vehicles. Designers replace graphic books with the headset and Vigoson virtual reality controllers, using a motion tracking system that allows They can mimic sketches of the pen and paper by performing similar movements.
Michael Smith, director of design at Ford, explains that "seeing all the corners of the vehicle while painting creates creativity and promotes the development of human-based designs from start to finish." "Entering the 3D world allows us to see the vehicle from a 360 degree angle as it is created."
Recall that in the traditional way of designing cars, do a two-dimensional bascot and scan it later to produce a high-quality sketch. After evaluating these drawings, some are converted into data using a computer-aided design program to develop a three-dimensional model, then transfer that model to the virtual reality environment to evaluate it and determine the application of the design. It may take weeks, meaning designers have to be very selective when choosing designs that will move to 3D design.
The Gravity Sketch tool allows designers to speed up the process and reduce its duration from several weeks to just hours by eliminating the 2D drawing stage and working from the 3D model. Designers can mount the driver in the center and rotate their 3D design to see it from any angle, allowing the creation of a scalable vehicle around the driver. They can even access the Sketch vehicle to adjust design characteristics quickly to suit passengers. The Gravity Sketch allows Ford designers to place the customer in the middle of the vehicle as designers design a scout.
"This application is expected to enhance our commitment to providing the best vehicle designs to our customers. It brings the entire curriculum to the virtual reality world, giving us more options and the possibility of revising more models in the 3D environment to create the best vehicles ever. "
Thus, dozens of interior and exterior designers are now testing Gravity Sketch in five Ford design studios to explore its applicability within the workflow and its ability to innovate and collaborate in real time. The transition to virtualization design and evaluation can revolutionize the entire curriculum by reducing development time and allowing more 3D models to be developed in the evaluation phase.
