Robert Guyser | Design & Development » Software Design

SolidChat – Workgroup Networked Interaction for 3DCAD

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:32:43 +0000

While working as part of medium sized engineering teams with geographic separations, I started thinking about how existing corporate assets and the then hot field of CIM(Corporate Instant messaging) could be applied to a group of engineers designing complex products and sharing files. The problem is familiar to anyone who has ever worked with shared files: having to request file write access while in the middle of a creative or productive mode. This can waste time and be unproductive, not to mention the ocassions where hard work is made useless by designers working on the same aspects of a design and then having to choose which revisions to keep.

A working prototype was developed and tested. The prototype was written using the SolidWorks 2007 SDK and VB.NET. The application took the form of a client/server program that easily ran on any windows network.

MicroSeq – Animatronics for Designers

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:39:26 +0000

This self initiated R&D project was undertaken as I became deeply interested in animatronics for artists and designers without technical abilities, but familiarity with timeline based software such as Flash or FinalCut Pro. A working prototype was created with VB.NET, Parallax hardware, and Mikroelectronica’s MikroBASIC.

Automatic Vacuum Former Control Software

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:35:48 +0000

Created to control vacuum forming equipment I designed and built as part of a startup post design company I was involved with, this software makes repeatability easy. Developed in VB6. 2003