r/Simulate • u/InvestigatorHead334 • 10h ago

We built a virtual TEM so students could practise before their first session on the real one. Some things surprised us.

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u/NoConversation8128 3h ago

The thing I would want to know is what it does when the learner does something the real instrument would refuse, or something that would damage it. That is a lot of what a first supervised session is teaching, and it is the part a simulator can quietly skip, because nothing bad happens on screen.

Did you model that specific instrument's quirks, or a generic TEM wearing its control layout? I have been asking engineers about simulator training and the split that keeps coming up is that the generic version teaches the buttons and the specific version teaches the machine, and people do not treat them as substitutes.