To create products that improve an already well designed vehicle, requires skill and endless testing. Dinan double the performance of BMW sports cars. Tolerances are incredibly tight and any fault could degrade the vehicle's performance or cause the part not to fit. Engineers soon learned that the ability to see the new part in three dimensions on the computer screen was an invaluable tool. As the new part and the surrounding system is modeled in thinkdesign, the design engineer can spin and rotate each part or the entire assembly in 3-D space.
Engineers develop mounting brackets for a supercharger using thinkdesign.
Peter Kang, a Dinan design engineer, says that the value of thinkdesign as a 3-D tool goes well beyond the fact that the parts look so great on the screen. Being able to actually place the part in an assembly on the screen and visualize the part in three dimensions is crucial. The software is an invaluable tool. In addition, thinkdesign allows the engineer to run various scenarios or instances of the part in an endless amount of configurations. Kang does a lot of design work for Dinan exhaust systems.