Digital design chain
Virtual reality and design - Methods

Computers and networks, now as vital to companies as their telephone lines or even their power supply, have given rise to what we call the digital design chain (figure 2 ). At the start of this chain, we find a large computer database that constitutes the "brain" of the system. This is followed by a "backbone" that extends from the database throughout the company.

When designing an industrial product, the digital design chain enables us to move from the abstract – the first ideas of the product – to the concrete...