Collaborative computer-aided design—research and development status

✍ Scribed by W.D. Li; W.F. Lu; J.Y.H. Fuh; Y.S. Wong

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 206 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-4485
• DOI: 10.1016/j.cad.2004.09.020

✦ Synopsis

In order to facilitate product design and realization processes, presently, research is actively carried out for developing methodologies and technologies of collaborative computer-aided design systems to support design teams geographically dispersed based on the quickly evolving information technologies. In this paper, the developed collaborative systems, methodologies and technologies, which are organized as a horizontal or a hierarchical manner, are reviewed. Meanwhile, a 3D streaming technology, which can effectively transmit visualization information across networks for Web applications, is highlighted and the algorithms behind it are disclosed.