The necessity of making prototype

1. Test appearance design

Prototype is not only visible, but also tangible. It can be physical form to relect designers’ cration in a very intuitive way. And avoid the disavantage of “good-looking drawing but not good-looking”. Therefor prototypeing is indispensable in new product development and research of product apperance.

2. Test Stucture design

Because prototype is assembled, it can be reflect structural reasonable or not and the extent of assembly and easy to find and solve problems.

3. Avoid direct open mold risk

As the cost of molding is generally high, the cost of larger mold need hundreds of thousands or even millions, and if in molding process, unreasonable structure or other problems would be found, then its loss would be imagined. But for ptototyping, it can avoid this kind of loss and reduce molding risk.

4. Make the product available time well in advance

Because the advancement of prototype making, you can use prototype as product promotion before mold developed, even early sales, production preparation work and accupy the market as soon as possible. Now the prototyping technology is quite mature and apperance prototype is same with the product and many manufacutres showed prototypes in exhibitions to get orders and then open mold production to minimize risks.