Students reading for degrees offered by The University of Strathclyde’s Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management (DMEM) Department within the Faculty of Engineering, have facilities unparalleled in the UK, including a fully integrated series of virtual and physical prototyping systems. The Virtual Reality (VR) element was the last component to be added to this state-of-the-art studio, with all the VR hardware and software being supplied by Virtalis.
“Our students can now create a design in CAD, take that data into the VR systems and view their design stereoscopically, with a full 3D depth effect,” explains DMEM senior lecturer, Gordon Mair. “They can then make changes in CAD and re-review or transfer the data over to one of several high spec rapid prototyping machines to create a physical object.”