Industry

Design

Client

SAMMIE CAD Ltd.

Modernising Digital Human Modelling Through Prompt-Driven Simulation

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Legacy Constraints in Digital Human Modelling

SAMMIE CAD is a legacy digital human modelling tool used by ergonomists and human factors engineers to assess posture, reach, visibility, and accommodation within CAD environments. While powerful, the workflow is highly manual and time-intensive. To run a single assessment, users must first build or import the full CAD environment, then manually create multiple human models (e.g. W1–M99 percentiles, as well as ACADRE multivariate models). Each human’s joints must then be individually positioned to simulate specific postures. Assessments rely on static snapshots to highlight poor reach or visibility, but the software does not support modelling continuous human movement through real-world tasks. As a result, evaluations are slow, rigid, and limited in their ability to reflect dynamic human interaction.

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A Prompt-Driven, Task-Based Workflow

I reimagined the workflow by introducing a prompt-driven interface that dramatically reduces manual setup. Instead of building environments from scratch, users can describe the workspace and automatically generate the CAD context. They can specify which human models to assess and describe the task being performed, and the system generates and positions all required scenarios automatically. This shifts the focus from manual modelling to evaluative insight. The outcome is a significantly faster assessment process, the ability to evaluate multiple human percentiles simultaneously, and dynamic task-based simulations rather than static screenshots - reducing cognitive load, eliminating repetitive modelling work, and enabling more realistic human factors analysis.