A Practical Guide to Industrial Machinery Visualization
Renders and animations of production machinery, plant layouts and process equipment.
Imogen Clarke
The key figures
- CAD source
- engineering models provide accurate geometry
- Scale
- human figures give a sense of size
- Safety
- guarding and safety features should be shown correctly
- Confidentiality
- process detail may be sensitive
Why this is worth getting right
Machinery is too large and too busy to photograph well, and visualization shows internal operation clearly.
Do this, not that
Do
- Build from engineering data
- Include human figures for scale
- Show guarding and safety features accurately
- Agree what detail may be shown publicly
- Keep visuals updated with machine revisions
Don’t
- Machines rendered without guarding
- Visuals that reveal proprietary process detail
- No scale reference
- Outdated configurations in current marketing
When to bring in help
Our advice Bring in help when equipment is too large to photograph.
Where this comes from
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration — Machine guarding
- Autodesk — Data exchange
The figures and practices above come from the sources listed.
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