Design of Water Supply and Drainage Virtual Experiment System

Abstract

The major of water supply and drainage engineering demands of strong practicality, and the experiment course is an important part. However, the experiment course of this major is faced with the problems of insufficient space, numerous experiment equipment and limited demonstration. By using virtual reality (VR) technology to simulate experiments of water supply and drainage engineering, students can practice in the virtual laboratory. The virtual experiment system for water supply and drainage engineering was developed using Unity 3D in conjunction with scripting language C# and modeling tool Rhino. This system adopts three-dimensional (3D) modeling technology to restore the scenes of laboratories in school and tools using on the laboratory courses, and release local client, web graphics library (Web GL) version and VR version by Unity 3D. With the help of the system, students can learn and be familiar with experiment operations related to water supply and drainage engineering, and carry out simulation training. Teachers can also use the system's help for teaching.