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Materials and methods prototyping is even more evident in the testing and analysis phase. With a virtual prototype, upon completion of the simulation, all the calculated data can be accessed and processed immediately. The raw data can be directly analysed inside the software or easily imported into another numerical application for further analysis. The scope of the data includes almost everything that exists under real operating conditions: forces, deflections, displacements, stresses, etc. Another advantage of virtual prototyping is the flexibility it offers in prototype design. In traditional prototyping, many different ideas are brainstormed, eventually resulting in several scaled mock-ups. The number of prototypes produced is usually limited because of cost, material availability, and manufacturing and storage space limitations. Once a prototype is produced, any changes in the design need to be implemented manually. Unless a major overhaul of the prototype is acceptable, only small changes are possible, because large design changes are impractical. With virtual prototyping there is no limitation caused by costs or space requirements to build the prototype, so any number of design variations are possible. A part change or modification is automatically updated, maintaining the project without necessity for corrections in all versions of the prototype. Additionally, a current version can be easily reverted back to an earlier design stage, because all the changes made during the design process have been stored as a back-up. Most of the outcomes of physical prototyping can be achieved in virtual prototyping. All the dimensional interactions between parts can be examined. By being able to look at the virtual model from any angle, any issue involving line-of-sight or part interferences can be checked and different kinds of kinematical interactions can be tested. It should be noted that virtual prototyping does not by definition include a comprehensive virtual reality environment, but any virtual prototype can certainly be extended and experienced in virtual reality if the proper equipment is available (Wang 2002). A virtual environment (VE) allows a user to completely interact within the same environment as the product, often with the use of large-scale flat-wall displays, goggles, or CAVE immersive room 44
Materials and methods environments (Waurzyniak 2000). If necessary, virtual prototypes can be transferred across different platforms for further design modifications, when some special influences are of crucial importance (e.g. environment is not solid but fluid etc.). A final possibility with the virtual prototyping approach is the creation of a mock– up. In contrast to a prototype, which is usually functional and represents the latest version of a design, a mock–up is normally set up early in the design process when design ideas have not yet been solidified (Holub 2007). It is often either for a purely functional purpose with no aesthetics taken into account, or the opposite, where only the external appearance is created and no functionality is made available. The advantage is that a mock–up can be created quickly to give an early preview of a design, before it has been developed very far. Virtual prototyping allows very quick design of a mock–up, as a simulation assembly with very little functionality, including the prototype within its environment. This assembly can then be used to show what a model will look like without having to waste time defining the motion constrains required for movement. In this way, the functionality, speed and usefulness of a mock–up development are easily duplicated. 4.2.2.1 Pro/Engineer as a software tool In the past, even when parts and models were drawn in three-dimensions using software such as AutoCAD, performing any sort of kinematical or dynamic test required a copy of the original to be completely redrawn and redefined in another software application. This was because the above mentioned simulation capabilities were simply not present in drawing software packages. However, several software packages have recently begun to offer all in one solutions. For example PTC’s Pro/ENGINEER (Pro/E), has the built in capabilities of Pro/MECHANICA, which is a linear Finite Element Analysis package, since the Wildfire 2.0 release. This integration allows utilisation of the same software tool for both the design and simulation, making possible building, testing, and analysing of a virtual prototype in parallel. With full CAD/CAM/CAE 45
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