Decreasing Repetition with Automation
This group is able to produce a complex model with minimal user-constraints and by utilising a user-friendly configuration technique. The user is able to intuitively select where various geometries should be placed and the automation routine then creates the geometries based on user input. Perfectly balanced!
2nd place this year is a tie.
The is the most intuitive project idea, EVER, in the history of the course. How about costume made instructions depending on the configuration of the desk? Great idea and execution.
Although this project can be precieved as only “a fun idea”, it is very cleverly exectuted. Upon user choice, the time consuming processes are automatically instantiated based on a few number of geometries, namely planks. Great work!
This project demonstrated mathematical and geometric harmony and is very well executed by the students. Great work!
Result from the Product Modeling Course TMKT57 at Linköping University.
Results from the course Collaborative Multi-Disciplinary Design Optimisation course.
These groups represent those who have shown examplary understanding of MDO and Design Automation and as a group were able to successfully divide and execute the various tasks given to them by the course coordinators.
This project contains everything we want to communicate in regards to design automation. A design automation framework should be intuitive, interactive, easy to use, make sense, create value and ONLY automate the repetitive and time consuming processes in design. I believe that this group has been able to achieve just that. The results are impressive and inspiring.
This final post concludes the results from this year’s product modelling. Once again, it has been a privilege to work with you all and your hard work and dedication is a source of inspiration for all of us at the faculty. Have a great summer!
Many of my colleagues insist that design and art cannot be automated. In my opinion, this project proves them wrong. Fine balance between aesthetics and code. Well balanced and perfectly executed.
This is an incredibly cool project with a lot of future potential. Download a map from google maps and then automatically build a Dam. Even though the model is conceptual it still generates a lot of information in regards to how much material (dirt, rocks etc.) needs to be removed and what an initial cost could land on. There is a lot of potential value for being able to effectively generate infrastructure such as dams, roads and bridges in this fashion.
This project is the embodiment of how few parts (only three here!) can automatically build unique and generic models. Manual work is minimal, just as it should be. One of our favourite projects this year!
A great project with a lot of attention to details. The most impressive part of this project is how they have been able to automatically instantiate tiles on double curved roof surfaces. Brilliant!
To be completely honest, this project doesn’t look like much 🙂 What makes it great is the practical designs and outputs and the thus the potential value it could actually create. It’s decently the project which has the closest time to market, this year! Great work!
This application is able to assist designers in generating 3D models of industrial sized greenhouses in a fraction of time compared to manual CAD. Incredibly well executed project where design automation enables a process otherwise not possible!
Two years ago, similar stadium projects were found in top 5. The level of project-quality is constantly improving and a great work like this where thousands of features are automatically put in place, is found at 8th place. Terrific work!
9th place goes to this house configurator which is able to generate a unique solution that can be visualised for the customer and the generated BOM-list helps the company to make a cost estimation. Great work!
It was really hard to pick out only 10 projects this year. We struggled a long time and removed 5 really good ones and in the end we still ended up with 11 projects. So this year it’s a tie in top 10. Similar for both projects is that repetitive CAD is automated and many features are automatically put in right context. Good job!
Result from the Product Modeling Course TMKT57 at Linköping University. Top 10 result will be presented in the coming days…
To date, this is the best student project I have seen, in all categories. Multi objective Industrial stairs optimisation and automated instantiation from scratch. Absolutely fantastic.
Results from the course Collaborative Multi-Disciplinary Design Optimisation course.
These groups represent those who have shown examplary understanding of MDO and Design Automation and as a group were able to successfully divide and execute the various tasks given to them by the course coordinators.
So for the best project we have a real beast. Advanced modeling, awesome coding and great results. It has to be pointed that the project presented is not only a parameterised rubber model. All the detail such as boards and ribs are actually instantiated, which can be visualised in the video below, meaning that a bill of material (BOM) and drawings could be created to actually produce it. This fact together with incredibly complex surface models for ships which is parameterised from a small boat to a big ship is quite an undertaking.
The members in this group were clear in the beginning that they wanted to create something extraordinary. With hard work, commitment and some more hard work they’ve done just that. It has been a pleasure for us in the teaching group to follow all hard working groups and this group is this years icing on the cake.
In this project a product configurator is presented. The CAD models are no lookers but the logic created to enable interactive configuration together with the GUI is spot on. Good job!
This project is close to perfection. They’ve managed to automate a vastly complex structure. Note that the planks are not a material choice, but rather context dependent instances of actual Plank templates. The detail level is insane.
This project shows in an unique way how automation can be used to create complex structures, as in this case unique user-defined trees. It was a privilege to watch this group evolve during the course.
Perfect execution, awesome finish, and the instantiation of the windows is spot-on. This project also gets special mention due to the best poster produced this year where the application is intuitively described.
This is one of my favourites. Simplicity and complexity in perfect harmony. Awesome!
Smart thinking, good planning, proper modelling, top detailing. Great work!
Good planning of the branch-geometries within the group, before writing the automation routines resulted in this great work:
A great example of how to re-use models in an automated fashion to generate a broad variation of designs.
| We’ve seen the struggle. They’ve worked very hard and managed excellently to produce a respected end result. |
Result from the Product Modeling Course TMKT57 at Linköping University. Top 10 result will be presented in the coming days…
