Sketching in Early Conceptual Phases of Product Design: Guidelines and Tools

Ponn, Josef; Lindemann, Udo; Diehl, Holger; Müller, Franz

Sketching in Early Conceptual Phases of Product Design: Guidelines and Tools

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Date

2004

Authors

Ponn, Josef
Lindemann, Udo
Diehl, Holger
Müller, Franz

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

The early phases of product development play a significant role for the success of a product and the prevention of time and money consuming changes in late phases. This paper describes a new methodological approach for the genereration of principle solutions in the form of sketches in early phases of product development. A guideline has been developed for a target-oriented and efficient progression from working principles to principle solutions. In particular, the linkage between physical effects and form parameters (geometry, materials etc.) has been investigated. A computer system including physical effects as features which can be used for the generation of digital principle sketches is described as a vision. Such a system offers the potential of facilitating routine work and supporting the engineer in defining solution concepts at early stages of product design.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/SBM/SBM04/027-033
,
booktitle = {Sketch Based Interfaces and Modeling
},
editor = {Joaquim Armando Pires Jorge and Eric Galin and John F. Hughes
},
title = {{Sketching in Early Conceptual Phases of Product Design: Guidelines and Tools
}},
author = {Ponn, Josef and 
Lindemann, Udo and 
Diehl, Holger and 
Müller, Franz
},
year = {2004
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1812-3503
},
ISBN = {3-905673-16-9
},
DOI = {/10.2312/SBM/SBM04/027-033
}
}