I Inaugurate CompSci Association at DMI College of Engineering

July 15, 2010 on 3:09 pm | In CAD News | No Comments

by Lucky Balaraman, Executive Director

DMI College of Engineering is a relatively new institution about 40 kilometers out of Chennai, India (where incidentally where TMG’s office is), and the Computer Science Association very kindly asked me to inaugurate their activities for the year. It was a complete privilege for me to address part of India’s IT future. Here are several pictures of the event:

Walking in to a hero’s reception…

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lighting the inaugural lamp…

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sister Teresa, the Secretary of the College, gifts me a gold shawl…

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Rajeesh Rajagopal, a key member of the Organising Committee, asks me to speak…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I give the audience some value…

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Organizing Committee gives me some value

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Do You Offer Downloadable Parametric Models?

July 12, 2010 on 7:34 pm | In CAD News | No Comments

If you are a manufacturer of architectural products like furniture, bath fittings, sanitaryware, light fittings, modular kitchens or refrigerators, you might sell more products if you offered downloadable 3D models of your own products.

Interior designers who want to use your product need to know if they fit in the locations they want to put them in. The designers could download your 3D models, place them in the 3D model of the space they are designing and check if your products fit in the intended space. Also, once they place your model in its intended space, they can block off the usage area of your product and not attempt to place anything else there.

In the ideal case you would make parametric models of your products available. A parametric model is a model that comes along with a sort of spreadsheet. If you change the numbers in the spreadsheet, the drawing changes accordingly.

For instance, one cell in the spreadsheet could contain the length of the object. If you changed the number in that cell, the length of the object would automatically change. Sure simpler than modifying the model yourself!

Many manufacturers already offer downloadable parametric models because it makes designing with their products easier than with products of manufacturers who do not offer parametric model downloads.

Give parametric downloadable models serious thought… because they could lead to some serious business!

To your success,

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Aerospace Design: The Beluga Airbus, a Monster Aircraft

April 16, 2010 on 5:58 pm | In CAD News | No Comments

The Beluga Airbus is the world’s most volumetrically cavernous aircraft and is named after the similarly shaped Beluga whale. This Airbus is almost exclusively found in the skies of Western Europe and has been well documented by scientists. Considering that only five exist, one might consider it an endangered species.

The specifics:

• This monster of the skies measures a humungous 56.15 m ( 184ft ) in length and 17.24 m (56ft) in height, with a wingspan of 44.84m (147ft). It’s vast insides measure 37.7m in length, 7.1m in width and 37.7m in height (which racks up to a 1,400 square meters, roughly 14,000 square feet)
• It weighs 86 tons empty and can carry a volumetric payload weight of 47 tons
• One of its main uses has been the transporting of large Airbus parts
• It can swallow helicopters and international space station modules whole.

At first we thought it was an ordinary Airbus fuselage with a gigantic box bolted on the top… but then we noticed how the front section tilts downwards. Perhaps it’s bending under the weight of all that stuff on its head… 

Nevertheless, TMG looks forward to the day when its expertise in mechanical engineering will play an important part in the design of such landmark machines!

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