At Dassault, designers step into virtual creations
Dassault Falcon (Booth No.

Dassault Falcon (Booth No. 235) has created a “virtual reality room” that lets aircraft designers step into the digital creations they have crafted on their Catia design screens to make sure every detail is right before ever building the real thing.

For all its new airplane designs, Dassault is using the “immersive” virtual reality chamber and special features such as force-feedback arms and virtual images that shift according to the user’s position and movement. Since April, engineers have relied on it to verify, in full scale, practical aspects of aircraft designs. The super-midsize Falcon business jet (code-named SMS) will be the first to benefit, right from the start, from the new facility that NBAA Convention News visited last month.

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