The Future of Design

right now we interact with computers in a very unnatural sort of 2d way and we're try to create these 3d objects using a variety of 2d tools and it just it doesn't feel natural doesn't feel normal the way you should do things so we started playing around with the idea and using a few of things that are available out there such as the leap motion and Siemens NX which is what we use to design the rocket and we wrote some code to integrate the two and we started off with what you see here which is a wireframe of the merlin rocket engine and and what I can do is I can I'm going to grab it and I can rotate it in multiple dimensions and then what I can do is I can put another hand in there and I can zoom oh I can zoom in and out on the on the wireframe and then I can also translate it so I can move it around the screen and then zoom and translate and this is what we we started off with a few months ago Annie can you can also spin it and then catch it so this is kind of fun a fun way to interface with what is really a very complex model now we'll go to go from this to what we're able to advance to a few weeks after the wireframe which is to to actually use a a full 3d CAD model of the engine so here what you're seeing is the actual interaction with the CAD software manipulating the real 3d model of the Merlin engine just using hand gestures if you can just go in there and do what you need to do just understanding the fundamentals of how the things should work as supposed to figure out how to make the computer make it work then you can you can achieve a lot more in a lot shorter period of time so then we went to a 3d projection we started off with the kind of 3d projection that you familiar with in the movies we use 3d glasses we also did a free-standing glass projection which is what the sort of technology that was used in the Iron Man movies and then finally we used the oculus rift which is immersive virtual reality that actually tricks your head position and you really are moving around the object and feels like it's right there in front of you now let's use this for an actual component on the rocket which is a cryogenic valve housing you can really apply your intuition and take something from your mind to a physical object with far greater ease than we currently do now that we've gotten it the object out of our head and into the computer how do we get it out of the computer and into reality so we're actually going to print this with a 3d laser metal printer so the way that the 3d printer works is it lays down fine particles of either titanium or inconel and then it goes over with a laser and melts that those tiny particles onto the prior layer so it builds it up like just layer by layer so I believe we're on the verge of a major breakthrough in design and manufacturing in being able to take the concept of something from your mind translate that into a 3d object really intuitively on the computer and then take that but virtual 3d object and be able to make it real just by printing it so it's going to revolutionize design and manufacturing in the 21st century you

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Length: 3min 48sec (228 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 05 2013