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Hi, I have just started using chief architect. I am looking for the electrical legend but I can't find it. I have seen many videos and discussion where they show the location on the library but my version seems to not have legend.
*** I have also since posting in this thread found Chief's Block is it is available in some of Chief's Sample Plans in the Gallery , eg Nashville. Austin etc ( Select > copy to your Library.) and also in the Chief Challenge Plan at the link below.....
Looking back at the past 20 years of cabin design, there have been some impressive advancements, including seeds planted for improvements that will re-shape air travel for the next two decades. As PJ Wilcynski, associate technical fellow and payloads chief architect for Boeing, states, the basic principles of cabin design endure, adapting to and benefitting from new technologies and capabilities.
Boeing has distilled these drivers into three basic needs: a place for things, a view to the outside, and feeling connected to the sky. Improvements made to the aircraft cabin, including technology upgrades, are created with these principles in mind.
Boeing has worked to deliver on those design principles over many years, including innovations like the automated tinted windows of the B787, a concept of comfort that can be traced to an original mock-up for the B707 cabin in the late 1950s, which included tinted visors.
Likewise, the notion of the Starry Skies lighting effects on the B777 cabin was first conceived for a B707 mock-up, which included Sky Domes. Looking forward to the next 20 years, many of the experiential improvements Boeing expects to see in the aircraft will help passengers break free of the confines of the cabin, giving them a unique connection to the sky, as close as possible to realizing the original dream of flight.
Looking forward to the next 20 years, Wilcynski expects that connectivity will play a continued role in cabin design, not only the connectivity we commonly think of today, facilitated by data networks, but the connection between passengers and the aircraft, and the experience of flight, addressing the three basic needs around which Boeing design is focused.
Wilcynski can imagine aircraft that create more interactive experiences for passengers, with images from below projected onto class-divider panels. For example, a program that might project sightings of whales in the water, so that passengers can enjoy them.
Enhanced lighting programs could create unique experiences, such as a projection of floating lanterns on the ceiling, to accompany meal times, and nightscapes of the stars, including the position of the constellations relative to the phase of flight. These experiential features might also be projected to seatback displays, but Wilcynski believes that the focus of design should be to make flight a less isolating experience.
While there are many benefits to individual comfort and entertainment choices, passengers should also feel that they are enjoying an enhanced flying experience together, he believes. That said, some individual experiences can be improved through a greater awareness of the ground and enjoyment of flight, at least for those with window seats. Informational projections on windows could point out sights and special features.
Asked about blended wing aircraft, Wilcynski modestly answers that the viability of the aircraft itself is beyond his purview, although he has some notion of what might be required for the cabin design of such an aircraft.
So form that fits function, even simply, can be enduringly elegant. But the function and experience of flight is far more than transporting people from point A to point B, and Wilcynski hopes the industry will never lose sight of that.
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