A Look Inside Virtalis Visualisation with Dave Corlett
Hello, and welcome to my blog! I’m Dave Corlett, Technical Consultant here at Virtalis. You might be wondering what exactly a Technical Consultant does or, more specifically, what I do on a daily basis. Let’s start with the tagline from my LinkedIn profile:
Helping customers realise their goals and leverage the full potential of the Virtalis product suite.
It sounds good, right? But what does that actually mean in practice? In short, my role is to enable our customers to achieve the visualisation goals they have in mind, whether it’s creating a fully tailored solution or guiding them on how to make the most of the Virtalis product suite.
What Does a Technical Consultant Do?
My job takes many forms, depending on what our customers need:
- Delivering complete solutions: Some clients prefer us to handle the entire process, from discussing their requirements to delivering a complete solution. This could mean building a custom plugin to help them achieve their desired visualisation.
- Collaborative projects: For more bespoke projects, I work alongside customers or their developers to integrate Virtalis solutions with their own tools. We often share knowledge of our respective APIs to create something unique and impactful.
- Training customers: For those who prefer to create their own solutions, I provide training on how to use the more advanced features of our software, including working with our APIs.
I also get the chance to experiment with my own ideas, developing capability demonstrators that showcase the full potential of what Virtalis technology can do.
Why and How I Help Customers
Beyond individual projects, the most important aspect of my job is communicating with customers about their needs and how our software can help. One of the most common questions I get is: “Can the software do X?”
The answer is almost always yes, but with any project, the details matter. I won’t claim everything is easy, but through this blog, I hope to show the vast range of things that are possible with Virtalis tools and inspire you to think about visualisation in new and creative ways.
What to Expect from This Blog
This blog will focus on sharing a variety of examples of the work I do at Virtalis. I’ll dive into some technical details about how we create these solutions and why they are designed in certain ways. The goal is to encourage you to think about your own visualisation needs and ask us how we can help bring them to life.
Instead of wondering how you can replicate what everyone else is doing, I encourage you to ask, “What do I need to visualise?” and then let us show you how it can be done.
Feel free to get in touch with me if you’d like to learn more or have questions about how we can help your organisation.
Teaser: What’s Coming Up?
Here’s a sneak peek of some topics I’ll be covering in future posts:
- Importing CAD directly from data management software
- Creating obfuscated visualisations
- Simulation in VisRen
- Connecting VisRen to web APIs
- Visualising weather data
- Visualising project management data
- Visualising CAM data
- Visualising simulation outputs
- Visualising 4+ dimensional data
I’m excited to share my experiences and insights with you, and I hope this blog inspires new ideas for your visualisation projects!