Intelligent Mechanical Engineering Design Environment : From Sketching to Simulation

The Problem: Interfaces to mechanical design systems seriously limit the user’s creativity, while drawing on paper does not allow the user to interact with her sketch as a mechanical system. We would like to provide a natural environment for sketching and developing mechanical systems directly on the computer. We are doing this by building an environment that combines the creative freedom of freehand sketching with the technical feedback of viewing and running the sketch as a 2D kinematic simulation.