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  • A feature based approach for conceptual design
    Golob, Borut, 1956- ; Jezernik, Anton, 1939-2021 ; Hren, Gorazd
    Conceptual design has been recognised as an important part of design process, but receives weak computer support due to complex and informal data, that is hard to retrieve, store and maintain with ... computers. Beside geometrical data, it is important to capture, represent and process the function and the behaviour of a product. This should already be done in the early phases of the development process in order to support the flow of information without loss along the process chain and assist designers in all phases of the product development by providing intelligent and intuitive computer support. The presented approach is a feature-based modelling of product semantics and function that takes place already in the conceptual design phase. Features are then the information carriers that allow modelling the relationships between requirements of a product, its functional descriptions and physical solutions. They will also bring this information to the downstream applications and will allow, for instance, to keep track of the consistency between the concept, the design, and the manufacturing of a product. Existing approaches towards a feature-based integration of different phases of the product development to support concurrent engineering include extracting and mapping different views of a parametric representation of a product, expressed in terms of geometric form features [De Martino & al, 1998], [Golob &al, 1999]. Products semantics are there expressed in terms of explicit geometric or functional constraints [Brunetti & al, 1996], [de Kraker & al, 1995]. Product semantics as it is handled within the conceptual design is not supported. The aim of this paper is to come up with a concept to represent the conceptual design information, for supporting the product semantics along the development process, and finally to improve concurrent engineering and top-down design by supporting an early feature-based prototyping of the different views to the overall product model making use of captured feature information to the largest extend possible. Major prerequisite of such an approach and therefore focus of this paper is a suitable representation scheme to store, manage, and retrieve product semantics including conceptual data.
    Vir: Proceedings of the 7th International Design Conference DESIGN 2002, Cavtat, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 14-17, 2002 (Str. 483-488)
    Vrsta gradiva - prispevek na konferenci
    Leto - 2002
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 7112726

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