ManneQuinBE™ Version 2.6
Bringing Simplicity to Human Modeling

Product Overview

ManneQuinBE was developed for engineers, architects, space designers, human factors professionals, and others who need to include and position human models in their designs.

Click image for larger view.

Ideal for users of modern desktop CAD systems, ManneQuinBE performs basic human factors analysis to ensure the highest level of comfort, safety and efficiency for the humans who will work, live and play in any newly designed or modified space. The software allows designers to incorporate human figures, even those with specific physical challenges, into every design-easily, accurately and inexpensively. ManneQuinBE places customized male and female mannequins of all ages in the design and animates them to explore all possible human ranges of motion and vision, showing the designer exactly how the human will "fit" and "see" the space.

The release of ManneQuinBE extends the ManneQuinPro product line of customized ergonomic technology for everyone involved in the design process. ManneQuinPRO was the first Windows-based human modeling and ergonomic design software program on the market to insure that changes made during the product design process do not compromise ergonomic standards for safety, comfort or efficiency. Equipped with exhaustive biomechanical analysis and NIOSH equations, ManneQuinPRO is the tool of choice for designers who consistently require detailed calculations involving forces, angles and weights. ManneQuinBE is an easy-to-use application perfect for designers more concerned with the size of the mannequin than what it can do. ManneQuinBE is complete with import and export capabilities to allow for more detailed analysis using ManneQuinPRO.

ManneQuinBE includes a new printing system, new rendering back-end, new scene management subsystem, updated help, and operates under Windows 98, Me, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. As well, various program corrections involving mannequin movement are included.

Benefits

Represent the intended end users by placing a mannequin in the environment to determine how they will fit and interact.
Visualize through your eyes what "you" will see when you "Walk on Path" through your site.
Match mannequin's attributes to their workstations.
Validate if minimum ADI standards result in a good or functional work space design by placing mannequins in wheelchairs in, and have them interact with, their new environment.
Read and write standard DXF files.
Easy to learn

Interface Overview

ManneQuinBE's interface is fully Microsoft Windows compliant. Fly-outs, pull-down menus and on-line documentation have all been created to provide you with a friendly, ease-to-use and easy-to-learn interface. Our goal is to help you get the basic design feedback information you require quickly without you having to be a human factors expert.

Click image for larger view.

Features

An anthropomorphic database for males, females and children based on the 1988 Natick U.S. Army to create 3D,ergonomically correct human figures.
Display of the environment as seen through the mannequin's eyes.
Mannequins' ability to move along a predetermined path.
Import/Export between ManneQuinBE and ManneQuinPRO for more in-depth ergonomic analysis.
Direct manipulation of mannequin allows creation of any human compatible pose including multiple hand positions.
Test mannequin's ability to reach any point.
Display mannequin's field of vision and reach envelopes.
Library of predefined and user defined postures (including physically challenged) for full body or hand only.
OpenGL rendering
Animation using simulated movement along a specified path