Description

This interactive simulation is used as a troubleshooting aid to better understand, diagnose, and repair a circuit board. The simulation allows a user to highlight different component parts, to toggle back and forth between a physical view and an electronic view, and to click on component parts to link to external sources of information.

Purpose

Hypercosm 3D simulations can be used for electronics troubleshooting and visual integrated vehicle health management. Using this approach, circuit board schematics or electrical diagrams are transformed into 3D elements. This turns a simple circuit diagram into an interactive schematic with embedded troubleshooting information. The linked 3D model acts as a visual roadmap, highlighting the exact location of individual components or voltage and current paths. A user can now quickly and easily locate the exact pin, component or trace to follow during an emergency situation, rather than be required to search through symbolic diagrams that do not resemble actual hardware. This work also demonstrates the ability of Hypercosm to interface and collect information from existing sources, databases, websites and electronic libraries.

Features

• Mouse over information
  Information on individual components is automatically displayed when a user points at an item with the mouse
  
  
• External hyperlinks
  3D models can be clicked on to link to external data
  
  
• Toggled 2D schematic / 3D physical views
  User can switch between the 3D physicsal view and the 2D schematic view.