Five Steps from Concept to Reality

Five Steps from Concept to Reality

It all begins with an idea, something drawn on a simple piece of paper, an amazing product idea that will fill a gap in someone’s lives and potentially take the market by storm.
But how does an inventor or entrepreneur get an idea or a simple sketch off the page and into the real world? With a little help from a design engineer.

Step 1. Concept Design:
A hastily-scribbled idea is just an idea until you can take it off the page and make something of it.
Obviously, this statement rings true for many more aspects of life outside of the consumer products market, but we’ll stick to products. It’s fortunate that even a scribbled idea can easily become a professional concept design in little time.
By utilizing a 3D CAD (computer-aided design) software application, a design engineer can take a drawing of a device, gadget, or gizmo and turn it into a fully-rendered 3D CAD drawing. The process for taking a scribbled drawing and turning it into a 3D computer file involves brainstorming ideas around the product, concept sketching, refining aspects of the product idea, and concept design. At this point, your product idea is beginning to take on a life of its own.