Keypad Design
DescriptionBehavior Modeling is used to create the geometry for a keypad design, as could be used for a remote control, pager, or mobile phone, for example. To meet aesthetic and ergonomic design considerations, the overall contour of the keypad design is a complex curved surface, rather than a simple flat design. This means that the geometry of each individual keypad is a function of where on the surface it resides relative to a provided datum. The result is a model of complex geometry that is tedious to create manually and relatively difficult to modify.
This application is a good example of using Behavioral Modeling for "smart" automated geometry creation. Analysis features are created which define the relationship between the shape of the keypad and its location relative to a datum and grouped in a User Defined Feature. The User Defined Feature is then used to create all the individual keypads.
