There is a reinvented technology that is slowly gaining popularity among computer enthusiasts. Multi-touch technology has been in existence for a long time but it is only couple of years ago that a working model was introduced. Since then, multi-touch display panels have been created by a lot of enthusiasts and developing more applications for it along the way. There are even talks among the touch technology community to develop a multi-touch technology display panel for various engineering industries. This new system would seamlessly integrate with existing 3D engineering design applications in order for the engineers to be able to create, edit, or alter designs using only their fingers.
How would this help the engineering industry? As you probably have known, most buildings, bridges, and other edifices, are first digitally constructed on computers running special computer aided design applications in order for the engineer to visualize the structure that he has in mind. These 3D computer design applications would enable the engineer to decide what materials to use, their measurements, and how they would look like after construction is done.
Using 3D computer aided design technology has been with the engineering sector for a long time and it has been successful in its assigned task. The problem, however, is that using mouse and keyboard on these 3D applications often takes a long time because of the measurement intricacies that a designer should follow. Though you may be able to manipulate a group of objects using a mouse and keyboard combination, it would seem that the speed is not that adequate.
The entrance of multi-touch technology in the engineering stage is a welcome development for the engineers who have been laboriously figuring out a way how to create marvelous 3D computer aided designs more speedily. Multi-touch technology enables these engineers to create and manipulate various engineering designs with their fingers touching the screen. Naturally, this is in combination with the usual tools they have been using in various 3D computer aided design software now seamlessly integrated into a multi-touch system.
Creating or altering designs now would be a cinch with engineers directly interacting with the objects that they have created on the screen. It will just be a matter of pointing, dragging, and pinching the objects so that they conform to the design that the engineers have in mind. The time it will take for the engineer to do this would be shorter than with a mouse and keyboard combination as the means of input.
Indeed, multi-touch technology is setting the stage for a new beginning in the industrial field. It would not be long until this touch technology is extensively used in an industrial setting.
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