Instant Modular 3-D Mockup for Configuring Control and Display Equipment

A modular 3-D mockup technique was developed as a method for economizing and facilitating the design of control and display equipment. The integral parts of the mockup include modular easy-to-assemble console bays and panels (dimensioned after standard sizes and increments thereof for flexibility), simulated magnetic backed 3-D controls and displays of actual size, various writing shelf configurations, fast assembly clamps, storage cabinet with casters, Polaroid camera, etc. Human engineering constraints were designed into the mockup parts (i.e., optimum reach, height, view and control limits) so that the designers could not deviate from human engineering inputs, facilitating optimum operating conditions.