Physics Enabled
With MaxSpot’s physics engine, users can move aircraft representations throughout the ship deck space while having the aircraft interact with each other and with the ship itself. This allows for not only aircraft layout design, but also path finding for aircraft placement.
2.5-D Environment
MaxSpot allows users to import multiple aircraft representations and govern their interaction behavior by assigning “roles” to the various components of each aircraft (i.e. landing, wings, etc.). These roles determine which sections will collide and which will pass through each other, along with any minimum distance requirements for each section (i.e. 9” wing distance). For example, if drawings of a plane and a ship are imported, the user can assign roles so that the landing gear of the aircraft can never cross the ship deck edge, while allowing the wings to pass over. In this way, MaxSpot provides a 2.5-D interaction space for aircraft and ship decks.
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Product
Spawning from our work with MaxSpot, we have developed CAD Physics, a stand-alone program designed to accept numerous AutoCAD dxf files and place them in the physics-based, 2.5-D space described above. After the user has interacted with their drawings in this environment, they can easily export the configuration back to AutoCAD for further editing. Learn more …
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