The Mechanical Design Process 4 of 4
The mechanical design process is one of continual reassessment and refinement. Vector Innovative Drafting makes the process affordable and accessible so that the best ideas emerge as quality solutions to real problems.
A prototype is a product model that is testable to verify full functionality, real cost, and practical scalability. Physical prototypes can be prohibitively expensive, and Vector Innovative Drafting has the solution. A fully explorable digital prototype is a cost effective, timely method for assessing a products viability. Using these digital prototypes, engineers and designers can make adjustments before a physical product is rendered. This quickens the design process by lessening the time needed to identify and correct errors, and it makes the product more affordable my eliminating the cost of failed physical prototypes. The results of a digital prototype allow developers to test and redesign a product to ensure that the best solutions are the ones presented for physical manufacturing and development.
Before a product is complete, it must undergo its most important test yet; a user based test. Using the knowledge and reassessment from the digital prototypes, engineers create a physical prototype that can be tested by users in the product's desired environment. While digital prototypes ensure that a product functions as planned, ensuring that people can successfully use a product is a necessary aspect of the design process. The user test ensures that the product successfully solves the problem that it sought to remedy and that users were able to interact with the product in all desirable ways.
With the final data from the user test, engineers return to the design process by implementing needed changes, ensuring their veracity, and producing a final product. This refinement cycle is the method by which truly great solutions are devised to solve problems and to produce great products.
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