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