Hi there,
does Fusion have a mode which could calculate structural stability such has how many vertical poles are needed to prevent the yellow topsurface not to breack when sitting on it?
I was curious if maybe the curvature setting in TS might line up with the openings we tested out through prototyping but they did not match really.
Soldithinking has a pretty cool bone growth algorythm that does something simmilar.
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
We have some expreiments on this internaly. Here is a video of one of those tests. Tell us what you think...
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design
Kevin, this is great. I keep thinking back to the early days of desktop publishing, when easy to use tools resulted in a lot of really bad design. I think one of the great challenges for tools like Fusion, which open possibilities to many people without much training, is to help them make better designs. Simple structural feedback like this could be a real help.
Hi Ron,
I think what you pointed out does not only apply to people with not much training but also designers in general.
Idealy today a desig education should include applied arts as well as engineering but that will never really be likely
to happen as this would also requiere more semesters to study to make it meaningful.
So what I find interesting about Fusion is that it tries to present a solution to certain complex problems.
Alias is dramatically better at surfacing than Fusion 360. But not every designer will also dig into all the high end
features Alias offers for surface control. I guess thats why specifically with Alias you also call them Alias sculptors.
On the other side shelling a design in Alias is a pain and in Fusion fantastic.
I see the demonstrated sim part as well a nice simplification to provide you a rough idea. And that is I think somethings
also enough for a designer to get his/her design direction adjusted when testing physical problems and not having to
run this by the engineer, in case that person is also present.
Now I teach industrial design students and not engineers. They all have a certain understanding of materials but less
engineering and Fusion increasingly turns into a very nice option for them to include into their workflow.
Claas Kuhnen
Faculty Industrial Design – Wayne State Universit
Chair Interior Design – Wayne State University
Owner studioKuhnen – product : interface : design