RTD At Work : For Designers and Manufacturers
Create the design, show the design, export the design, build the design.
Tent manufacturers can quickly and easily create 3D models that match their product range. They can show a 2-pole tent (or 2 bays of frame) or 4 or 6, as quickly as the blink of an eye. Change the width, leg height and colours; there are thousands of variations in the app. It presents in a flowing way that informs but doesn't intrude, full of information and considered design.
This software will revolutionise the way you sell your product.
You do not sell one tent. You sell a range, and the range needs to appear on screen as fast as a customer can describe it.
Build the models that match your product range, then let the range flex.
2 poles, or 2 bays of frame. 4. 6. The change happens as quickly as the blink of an eye, because nothing is being redrawn. Width, length, leg height, pole height, hemline and fabric colour are each a control rather than a fresh afternoon at a CAD screen. Between them there are thousands of variations, and none of them cost you anything to produce.
That matters most in front of a customer. A conversation that used to end with a promise to send a drawing next week now ends with the tent itself, at the size they asked for, in the colours they chose, turning on the screen between you. The specification is agreed while they are still in the room, and it is agreed against something both of you can see.
Underneath the presentation the geometry is real. The mesh is relaxed, so the curvature on screen is the curvature the fabric will make. Cables, bale rings, lugs and guy lines are modelled as parts rather than as drawn decoration. Two structures can be joined along a picked seam, with twin poles, webbing, fittings and gutter, so a linked range is quoted as confidently as a single unit.
Because the model is honest, it keeps working after the order is won. What you showed the customer is what the workshop makes. There is no second version of the truth, no drawing office reinterpreting a sales image, no discovering in the workshop that the shape you promised was optimistic.
In the manufacturer's hands:
Pole counts changed live, from 2 upwards, with the plan rebuilding around them
Width, length, leg height and pole height set as direct typed values
Fabric colours and finishes applied across the whole range
Relaxed mesh geometry, so the shape shown is the shape made
Cables, bale rings, guy lines and lugs modelled as real components
Two tents joined with a seam, twin poles, gutter and fittings for linked structures
Truss and frame modes for the sections of the range that are not pole supported
DXF export for the drawing office and production planning
Project, client and job number carried through every export
Dimensions generated automatically, in one touch
Sell the range, not the promise of a drawing.
