Research on Softwares for Education of Industrial Design

Industrial design is a very important subject, which is a combination of applied art and applied science, whereby the aesthetics, ergonomics and usability of products may be improved for marketability and production. The discipline of industrial design can promote a country industrial development. The rapid development of industrial design requires many high level industrial designers. Therefore, how to train enough industrial designers is very important for a country. School education is critical for the training of industrial designer. This paper takes the characteristics of the industrial design and the actual needs of teaching into account, comparing several most common planes and three-dimensional CAD and some other software. It focuses on the characteristics of both of them in the functionality, ease of use and operation, rendering the performance capabilities. The purpose of this paper is to provide a proposal of selecting suitable softwares for education of industrial design, especially for students to learn how they work together to make a good industrial design scheme.