Design oder nicht sein¶
This resembles the Shakespeare quote: ‘To be or not to be’, but it rhymes only in German
To locate the term Parameteric Design in the huge field of meanings associated with Design, let’s start with a few basic questions.
The enumerations below are of course incomplete …
WHY¶
Why do we need design, why do we work as designers?
- To be creative
- Develop ideas
- Visualize
- Modeling / Prototyping
- To make something real
WHAT¶
What do we get from the design process?
- Artwork
- Gadgets
- Diagrams, drawings
- Animations
- Architecture
- Fashion, jewelry
- Mechanical parts
The results¶
of the design can usually be located on a scale between the left and right side
| Rather beautiful | Rather useful | |
|---|---|---|
| Organic | Mechanic | |
| Smooth | Exact | |
| Curvy | Edgy | |
| Visual | Descriptive | |
| Complex | Simple |
A Design is also mostly categorized as two-dimensional or as three-dimensional.
WHO¶
Who is in the design business?
- Designers (of course)
- Inventors
- Engineers
- Architects
- Artists
- Makers, hobbyists
HOW¶
How do we create designs - which are our tools?
- Pen and paper
- Canvas and brush
- Paint and Spray
- Software (Digital design)
We will talk about Digital Design here. For the purpose of this presentation, we will group this further into more mouse-oriented vs. more keyboard-oriented work method.
| Remember: | Even when we work with the most sophisticated tools: It is always a good idea to have pen and paper at hand. It remains a fast and easy way to capture and visualize ideas. |
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A first conclusion¶
There isn’t a one size fits all solution for 3D-modeling.
The term ‘parametric design’ narrows the subject of this talk to rather mechanical, useful 3D-designs, which can be used as input to make some real parts. The software we will use as our tool is mainly keyboard-oriented and is convenient rather for engineers than for artists.
And so the design application of our choice is: OpenSCAD