From the course: Insights on Automotive Design with Veejay Gahir

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What are some of the more difficult projects you've worked on?

What are some of the more difficult projects you've worked on?

From the course: Insights on Automotive Design with Veejay Gahir

What are some of the more difficult projects you've worked on?

Some of the difficult projects. Actually this is a reoccuring theme for interior designers. So when we design a component, let's take an example. Let's design a grab handle that goes into a headliner. So many times we've had cases where a customer that we would be working for, one of the big OEMs, would come in for a design review. So we create the design. We would surface it then they would come in for a design review and they would look at that component. We would shade it up, we would put different environments on there. And it's really funny because sometimes a component that's literally four or five inches long, we would zoom into it so it's like four feet across. And they would look at a corner and they say, there's a, there's a slight problem in this corner. I don't like the way that light looks there. So we would have to go back in there and rework. And literally we're talking in the automotive industry we're moving things a thousandth of a millimeter to try to get highlights…

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