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At Guipro Srl, the Technical Department handles the creation of new products or new product lines, also through the coordination and integration of skills and resources available in the company. It also takes care of the development and design of specific components with the aid of computer technology. In general it has a high degree of specific skills in various production sectors. It is a planning stage placed in between the Industrial designer and the production of the object, with the task of making the ideas and projects of the designer operational, starting from the reworking of the design, to the construction of the prototype. It is a technical-creative team capable of reworking and planning - with different techniques - the ideas and needs of the company, using advanced technologies as well as traditional ones.

GUIPRO develops cutting-edge design projects, while keeping in mind the future requirements of the product’s development. Each draft is designed in 3D and this guarantees reduced development and production times. A primary design is used at the onset, due to the fact that industrial design, as part of the modern movement, is based on the conviction that the fundamental quality of an environment consists in its concrete structure and therefore in a balanced correspondence between shape, structure and functional need; the cultural quality of the living space comes about automatically from this balance.

In order to create designs, GUIPRO makes use of the main CAD software available on the market. It designs objects in complex assemblies in 3D using solid modelers and surface modelers. A good surface modeler must also provide tools that can configure the surface of any shape, in addition to functions that simplify its modification, because in order to meet the volume constraints, the designer must be able to intervene quickly and accurately on a surface, so as to be able to modify it in a global way, or, as is often the case, in a more localized way. While surface modeling has the characteristic of being able to construct geometries of different morphological complexities, solid modeling offers greater operational simplicity, since solid shapes can be made with generally simple and intuitive functions.

GUIPRO can create a three dimensional design of any solid object. The resulting model is exactly the same as the original and it is therefore possible to modify it based on the client’s needs. This technique of reverse engineering is then the optimal solution for designers in all types of fields, from automotive to motorcycles, where it is commonplace to create handcrafted models of the body, to the jewelry industry, where the need to own digital models of jewelry, statuettes and bas-reliefs is increasingly common, for their large-scale creation using numerical control machines.

GUIPRO creates demonstrational prototypes so as to verify the perfect functioning of the designed object. The various rapid prototyping techniques, while differentiating themselves with their creative methodology and the material used, share some fundamental criteria related to the “additive” method and to the availability of a three dimensional virtual model. As opposed to the subtractive methods, based on numerical control milling methods that create a physical model through the removal of material from a physical block, the additive model uses machines capable of progressively adding material to an embryonic shape. The embryo grows based on CAD geometry, translated into commands that are compatible with the functional characteristics of the prototyping machine.

For the creation of mold, GUIPRO uses VISI-MOLD software, a solution that provides designers with an efficient design tool, allowing for the configuration of the mold in terms of normalized plates with great flexibility. Created to meet the most current demands, it greatly reduces the production time of designs and of project verification, sizing the mold based on the object to be created. Moreover, thanks to its powerful graphic interface, it works in 3D, so as to allow for different solutions, examining conflicts between the interior details and making various optimizations, while it is being automatically created.