I believe that many students majoring in industrial design have more or less worried about choosing software. I have come into contact with most of the software on the map. if there are too many software, I will not list them one by one. it may be mentioned later (I hope you won't be too confused🤔).
I am now working as an industrial designer in a company. My biggest feeling after work is that I have learned a lot of software in school at ordinary times. I may not use a lot of software at work. However, if you have plenty of time in school, you can still learn more and broaden your knowledge. (The skill is not too big🫡)
Some students may have difficulty choosing when they see so much software at once. Maybe you will have a clue after reading this article today.🤩🤩. The most basic skills of industrial designers are sketching, modeling, rendering and typesetting.
(1) In the sketch part, the vast majority of colleagues in the workplace will choose ipad drawing, and some use hand-drawn boards (but a small number). The software can choose sketchbook or procreate (personal habits are biased, and can basically complete the drawing of all sketches and renderings). For hand-drawn boards, PS will be selected. As for paper hand painting, I should also practice more. Basic skills cannot be forgotten.
(2) in the modeling part, most of the industrial design positions currently require rhino or proe. As for the 3dmax,maya,C4D learned by the school, blender basically polygon modeling is not used. I chose rhino to learn, because with the continuous update of rhino, there are also subdivision modeling, which is equivalent to polygon modeling. In this way, both polygon modeling and surface modeling can be well grasped.
(3) In the rendering part, the Keyshot in the work is completely enough. Maybe you will think that the rendering is fake. It may be that your kung fu has not yet arrived home and you can study more. In fact, simple animation can also be done, which is more troublesome. As for the rest, C4D players will know that redshift,octane and arnold are the three additional renderers. Rich students (all need to pay, and the cracked version has graphics card requirements) can actually choose the first two renderers to learn. Arnold is hard to find tutorials. They are basically in English and are not very easy to use. Blender's own renderer is enough, it will be a little difficult to learn, but after all, there is no need to pay, and there are also online tutorials.
(4) typesetting part, we do portfolio more or less need typesetting, then in fact AI or CorelDraw is enough, other software actually tell the truth can be without learning. Industrial designers only need to do a good job in the portfolio and PPT proposal. After all, they don't often need the knowledge of graphic design. You should be able to use the basic functions of the best PPT, so that you will not suffer losses in the workplace.
Finally, to sum up, the students of industrial design in universities want to get started quickly. It is enough to learn the following software.
Ps,AI/coraldraw,procreate/Sketchbook, rhino/proe, keyshot
I'm just a designer who loves learning.🫡
Industrial designers really have too much to learn.🫡
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Am I the only one using ug
You're amazing.
It is suggested to learn proe better, because the actual design needs to be constantly modified, and the rhino model is not easy to modify.
Hand-painted by hand
2D, as far as industrial designers are concerned, early cdr ps, the function development link of pcba,)
3D, as far as industrial designers are concerned, I personally suggest to learn rhinoceros at the beginning, then give up rhinoceros and turn to proe. The reason is that rhinoceros modeling is relatively brainless at the beginning. You can do whatever you like. You have a preliminary understanding of 3d. You should start to be more standardized, go to engineering software and learn more about molds (don't ask why, the structural guy didn't have time to run over and use rhinoceros to show you your draft, your flow, where there will be watermarks and where there will be sun patterns). At the same time, he slowly felt the changes of millimeter units on the product and learned more. After that, he got started with both softwares, which was almost the bottleneck of your modeling ability. At this stage, rhinoceros is used to quickly make grass molds to find the feeling. Proe is used to carefully model, because it is easier to modify later, and the product docking structure can also be made more detailed and extreme. Don't listen to others tell you, what rhinoceros can get G34 curved surface, beautiful, proe can't get it, the first proe can do g2 is enough, at present, few factories in China can do it.
Rendering, no brain on the keyshot to get started, want to have some effect C4D but I still recommend blender, I would like to call it invincible.
Finally, consciousness is the king, and skills are only the foundation and confidence. Raise your awareness and don't stay at the product appearance stage. If you want me to give industrial designers something to learn at present. I will divide it like this
Product appearance-product structure-product positioning-functional principle-PCB composition-segment (direction) of each chip manufacturer-market price of each chip-I don't know the following. It's up to you to walk down.
We are all CDR sketching, and then rhino keyshot back to CDR.
Hand-painted: SketchBook
Plane: Illustrator (vector), Photoshop (later, typesetting)
Nurbs modeling: Rhino(Grasshopper, Sub D), Ailas
Engineering Modeling: Cero, CATIA
Grid Modeling: blender (Open Source, Free), C4D
Rendering: Keyshot, octane
Understanding all these software is enough to wear through the industry until retirement.
"In the sketch part, most of my colleagues in the workplace will choose ipad drawing." Isn't there more pens and paper? Maybe I am old
When designing, the most important thing is to be able to design, not to be able to software. Software is just a presentation of ideas. Don't put the cart before the horse.
I saw it four years late.
GOOD JOB
Learned
Thank you for sharing
Love learning, come on
If conditions permit, I have also learned proe. It will be very convenient to change the structure. Not everyone is suitable for industrial design. Multiple roads are prepared. In addition, proe chamfering and analysis are very useful.