Design reuse in a CAD environment — Four case studies

✍ Scribed by P.T.J. Andrews; T.M.M. Shahin; S. Sivaloganathan

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 341 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0360-8352
• DOI: 10.1016/s0360-8352(99)00033-9

✦ Synopsis

This paper presents two methods for storage and reuse of detailed engine~ing designs for efficient and adaptive reuse. The Generative Method [!], invokes techniques such as 'Interactive Feature Recognition' and a 'Parametric CSG-Tree' to produce a design model suitable for adaptive and innovative design. While the Variant Method [2], was subsequently developed to overcome the complexities of creating a generative CAD model and is better suited to the representation of families of similar designs.