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Derek Jones Post 1

• 2 August 2020, 11:47 AM

Physical vs digital workflows

The topic of physical vs digital working and methods came up a lot at our first meetup.

So here are a few first thoughts on this - but it needs your help to fill in the gaps and add to it. This is just my thoughts and take on things - yours is just a valid and useful (I promise), so please add anything to this thread.

It's also big enough that it needs to be divided up! So check out the replies for each section.

There are (or will be) bits on:

  • 0. General physical to Digital workflow
  • 1. Sketching: Physical > Digital design workflows
  • 2. Photography and design workflows
  • 3. Physical modelling and digital workflows
(PS - I have no idea if doing it this way will work. If it doesn't, we'll find another way. Let's find out!)

Derek Jones Post 2 (summarised) in reply to 1

• 2 August 2020, 11:53 AM

0. General physical to Digital workflow:

 Some general points about digital vs...
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Derek Jones Post 3 (summarised) in reply to 1

• 2 August 2020, 11:55 AM • Edited by the author on 2 August 2020, 1:32 PM

1. Sketching: Physical Digital design workflows

 I think there are two three...
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Alexander Foster Post 10 (summarised) in reply to 3

• 3 August 2020, 1:19 PM
I posted this in the OU Design FB group but I will post it here again in case...
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Derek Jones Post 11 (summarised) in reply to 10

• 3 August 2020, 1:46 PM
Brilliant videos - nice find, Alxander. Got to love automotive designers -...
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Derek Jones Post 4 (summarised) in reply to 1

• 2 August 2020, 1:28 PM

2. Photography and design workflows

 Apart from the usual boring workflows, I...
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Amy McTigue Post 5 (summarised) in reply to 4

• 2 August 2020, 2:18 PM
A good tool I have found for getting sketches and photos from my phone to the...
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Darren Evans Post 6 (summarised) in reply to 5

• 2 August 2020, 2:53 PM
I am always using my phone to take pictures of issues at work or problems...
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Derek Jones Post 7 (summarised) in reply to 5

• 2 August 2020, 5:20 PM
Same! Although I use Google Photos app and online. This works quite well but...
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Georgy Holden Post 8 (summarised) in reply to 7

• 3 August 2020, 10:43 AM • Edited by the author on 3 August 2020, 10:50 AM
I have recently been using Autodesk Sketchbook on my phone, I think it was a...
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Jamie Donaldson Post 9 (summarised) in reply to 4

• 3 August 2020, 12:44 PM
One quick way I came across transferring images from the phone to the...
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Georgy Holden Post 12 (summarised) in reply to 9

• 3 August 2020, 4:31 PM
I just found this nice description of workflow on a packaging product which...
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Nascine Bowen Post 13 (summarised) in reply to 12

• 3 August 2020, 9:07 PM
Hi Georgy Thanks much have looked at this and it's a workflow I will be...
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