CrystalEyes and Unigraphics Help McDonnell Douglas Engineering Efforts Take Off

Increasingly, companies are adopting concurrent engineering methods to enhance their design and development environment. In the design phase, teams of engineers collaborate to identify and prevent problems anticipated in a product's entire life-cycle. This leads to an increase in product quality and a reduction in development time and cost.At McDonnell Douglas, the engineering team builds digital models using Unigraphics V12 CAD/CAM/CAE and is able to easily share their design visions with the help of StereoGraphics CrystalEyes 2.

Stereoviewing with Unigraphics and CrystalEyes 2 allows them realistic views of their models with accurate height, width, and depth, luring them to reach out and touch the model they're viewing. "Often non-engineering personnel have trouble visualizing in 3D, as required in a design review with a customer or other support personnel," said Kevin Boggs, a dedicated Unigraphics V12 user. "With stereo images, a new technology is available to aid in selling the customer or management on a concept or explaining a design/procedure in a training application." The combination of StereoGraphics CrystalEyes 2 and Unigraphics significantly speeds the 3D design process by providing virtual prototyping capabilities to McDonnell Douglas. This in turn reduces project costs and expedites the company's time-to-market.

CrystalEyes 2 adds a third dimension for viewing computer images and allows engineers to view their models in a natural and more realistic way. In addition to enhancing concurrent engineering efforts, StereoGraphics CrystalEyes 2 delivers high-definition stereoscopic 3D images to many industries including molecular modeling, chemistry, GIS, and medical imaging.

Unigraphics' support of CrystalEyes 2 eyewear is available on Sun, Silicon Graphics, Hewlett-Packard, Digital UNIX, and OpenVMS workstations. Unigraphics supports a unique stereo mode operation to manipulate models by using a mouse or The Spaceball 3003 to dynamically rotate, pan, and zoom.