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

  • Authors:
  • J. Y. H. Fuh;W. D. Li

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 9 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore 117675;Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, 71 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 638075

  • Venue:
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

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.