Brandy Ryan
Last year, we watched DGDesign Senior Designer Mike Turner explore backplates, data import, and specialized backgrounds.
This year, we’re moving off highway for insight into design work supporting large, off-highway vehicle design.
Episode 01 goes behind the scenes at DGDesign to hear about a small range of bulldozers, a battery electric vehicle concept, and a radical mid-cab dozer project.
Off-highway Vehicle Design Highlights
1:03 – Mike talks about how he got into off highway vehicle design and began working with LiuGong.
4:10 – The intensive, iterative process of online digital reviews, exchanging data and going through feedback (first time Mike used VRED for interior renders).
5:17 — This project also required regular VR reviews in order to assess the cab’s interior.
6:54 – The mid-cab dozer project, what Mike calls a radical departure from conventional thinking; this major shift in design involved shifting the cooling pack so that operators can have a better sightline and an unrestricted view of the blade.
10:23 – The next project the team took on was a wheel-loading shovel with a radical new package: battery electric vehicle design required designing a whole new rear end to the vehicle.
11:11 — The bodywork was a fabricated initial prototype, which delivered a quite brutal aesthetic.
11:49 — The team had an incredibly tight turnaround, from receiving the battery package concept through to releasing the Alias surfaces for fabricated prototyping.
12:34 – The team develops initial animation for that vehicle and two other battery electric vehicles. These animations were the first VRED animations Mike had done. What seemed daunting at first because a fantastic realized project.
13:35 — The animations and prototypes were shown Con Expo, a construction exposition in Las Vegas.
For the full story behind these projects, check out the video below:
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