Advances in collaborative CAD: the-state-of-the art

✍ Scribed by J.Y.H. Fuh; W.D. Li

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 386 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-4485
• DOI: 10.1016/j.cad.2004.08.005

✦ Synopsis

In collaborative design and distributed manufacturing, the need to co-develop parts by designers at different geographical locations often arises. For designing a promising product, there is always a need for collaboration among the design, marketing, finance and procurement departments, and the top management. Global manufacturing makes it difficult to frequently gather all the departments in a meeting room to discuss, because of geographical constraints. In order to address this issue, recently, a number of software tools and research works have arisen to provide collaborative solutions. In this paper, some important works in Web-based visualization and 3D concise representations, 3D streaming technology and co-design systems and feature-/assembly-based representation are elaborated. Meanwhile, previous works done by a project led by the authors towards this direction are also highlighted.