Using procedure recovery approach to exchange feature-based data among heterogeneous CAD systems

Author

Li, Xiaoxia ; He, Fazhi ; Cai, Xiantao ; Chen, Yuan ; Liu, Huajun

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Wuhan Univ., Wuhan

fYear

2009

Firstpage

716

Lastpage

721

Abstract

Data exchange is one of key issues in collaborative design. The purpose of feature-based data exchange is that the target model is editable after being exchanged. This is the reason why nowadays feature-based data exchanges become the research focus beyond the traditional geometry-based data exchange. This paper presents a two-stage mechanism to recover a complete modeling process of a parametric CAD mode in source systems. Therefore, what we exchange is the procedure of modeling steps. In target systems, we use the exchanged procedure to simulate a real human to reconstruct the parametric CAD mode in any heterogeneous CAD systems. The proposed method has been tested with case studies among typical CAD systems, such as SolidWorks, UG, Pro/E and Catia.

Keywords

CAD; electronic data interchange; groupware; collaborative design; feature-based data exchange; heterogeneous CAD system; parametric CAD mode; procedure recovery approach; source system; two-stage mechanism; Collaborative work; Computer science; Design automation; Globalization; Helium; Humans; International collaboration; Product design; Solid modeling; System testing; Feature-based data exchange; Model reconstruction; Modleing procedure;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2009. CSCWD 2009. 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Santiago

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3534-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3535-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSCWD.2009.4968143

Filename

4968143