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Engineering designers use computers for their daily work; with their CAD systems, they define their own features, and reuse them to reduce the development cycle time of products. These features can be implemented on a knowledge-based system which automatically creates geometric models or checks their validity. Further, user-defined features which take the form of a macro or a procedure can be shared by other designers. Company design offices are physically scattered, yet logically connected through the Internet. To improve design productivity, design information about CAD data that is scattered across design offices must be shared among participating designers. This paper explains a collaborative design environment and proposes a product design environment based on distributed knowledge-bases. Such an environment integrates OMG’s CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture), Microsoft’s OLE (Object Link and Embedding), WWW (World Wide Web) as network architecture, a 3D CAD system, and an expert system shell. A design example of the lens barrel of a projection television is implemented to verify the idea.
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Bok, K., Myung, S., Han, SH. (2000). Lens Barrel Design Based On Distributed Knowledge-Base. In: Finger, S., Tomiyama, T., Mäntylä, M. (eds) Knowledge Intensive Computer Aided Design. KIC 1998. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 33. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35582-5_12
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