Operation-effects merging for collaborative design of personalized product

As the popularization of 3D print technology, in the future cloud manufacturing environment, it makes the customization of personalized product with low cost to be possible. The design in the customization of personalized product is particularly important. And the key issues are the expression and understanding of design intentions from designers with different backgrounds in collaborative CAD which is main design tool for industrial products. An operation-effects merging for collaborative design method of personalized product is presented, which treats the operation effects reflecting the design intention as the research object, and merges the operation effects based on the geometric semantics to support the real-time collaborative product design freely. The advantage of the proposed method is that, the design intentions are expressed without any delay in the design which can improve the design efficiency and product quality.