Opportunity
BM presents an opportunity for an enterprise to aquire control the 2D OnSite App.
The PlugIn is a working prototype, well advanced in it’s operation. BM is the sole user of the app, which hasn’t been exposed to public.
BM has been using 2D OnSite for several years, an indispensable design aid to a modelling career. Over that time, new features have been added and existing ones regularly improved.
It is an ongoing project but now is the time to hand over the App so it can be commercialised, supported and expanded further.
Productive Time Allocation
3D Modelling allows a user to model a full size, accurate project in 3D. If the 3D Model or part model is complete before fabrication begins, the results are speedy, cost effective and well organised.
OnSite Sketches
The 2D sketches required for this type of fabrication can take twice as long as the modelling. The modellers time is better spent moving on to the next module than it is breaking the work flow to generate the 2D sketches needed for fabrication.
The aim of 2D OnSite is to give site staff control over the 3D Model so they can produce their own sketches, measurements, visuals and hopefully, the desire to learn 3D modelling
Coding Overview
Rhino 3D, a dominant CAD modelling app for Marine, Architecture, Industrial Design and many other industries, is the software which the 2D Onsite PlugIn is built within. Rhino provide their own, freely usable scripting language called ‘RhinoScript’, which is used for all of the 2D OnSite algorithms.
The User Interface Panels have all been created in Visual Studio for Windows.
Still Todo . .
Although still fully supported, Rhinoscript has been superceded with Python, which provides cross platform coding between Windows and Mac. All the 2D Onsite algorithms will need to be converted before commercialising the app. This will be an opportunity to review the whole program and the concepts.
2d OnSite is currently a working prototype, all of the UI Panels are in draft form and some remain incomplete. There are several new features still in the preliminary stage so have not yet made it to the UI Panel stage.
In summary, many of the panels can be combined and all will need reviewing, modernising and generally finishing off.