Knowledge Management Centre

The Knowledge Management Centre (KMC) is considered as a backbone of the Institute and is a new age of a multifaceted approach to managing print, digital, audio-visual material, Prototype material all in a seamlessly manner. KMC has all the treasured wealth of knowledge showcasing the best collection of books, periodicals and other non book resources from all corners of the world. Apart from this, the centre has a large collection of the student diploma projects, craft documentation reports and other research projects. The KMC has also showcases the design prototypes.

Design Vision Centre

Design Vision Centre called DVC being established as an integrated Design support infrastructure with a climate controlled area of 3200 sq.ft. at the National Institute of Design (NID) Ahmedabad. DVC is the first such advanced industrial communication and experience design support facility in an educational institution in india.
The design vision centre includes three important labs namely' High performance Visulization Lab' (HPV Lab), Rapid Product Development Lab. (RPD Lab) Centric and industry research cells as well.

Laser Cutting Facility

For making the prototype incubatee requires the leaser cutting, there is CO2 Laser Cutting Engraving Machine Which be used for portrait engraving, Medium-density fibreboard (MDF) 3mm cutting , Shoes pattern cutting, Acrylic sheet 6mm cutting, Paper craft cutting, Fabric engraving , acrylic cutting and engraving, Aria 900mm X 600mm, leather 1.5mm cutting and engraving etc.

Performance Visualization Lab

The advantage of such facility is that a multidisciplinary group can visualize and experience together the 3D images of design concepts from 360 degrees in real time and provide feedback to the design team. this helps the design team to fine-tune the design concepts in a trans-disciplinary context. The system is versatile to cover product and communication design, Scenography , Animation character, design and host of such Visualization of products, Services and experiences, Visualization is a core activity in design profession. Without visualization there is no realization.

Rapid Product Development Lab

The RPD lab at DVC, houses facilities for rapid prototyping (RP) Machine, again state-of-the-art-technologies in 3 Dimensional printing technologies for model making this facility helps the design students and professional designers in saving time, energy and costs for converting design concepts into 3 dimensional mock-ups. the decision makers benefit a great deal as the 3D prints of design concepts are made available much faster compared to conventional methods. Hence a journey of a design concept from "Mind to Market " is faster and more real life using RP technology.

3D laser scanning

3D Laser scanner for scanning of 3D Modelling and conversion into digital images. this facilitates in many ways is updating design concepts faster as compared to the conventional methods for product development.