Exchange of Heterogeneous Feature Data in Concurrent Engineering and Collaborative Design Environments

Abstract

Exchange of heterogeneous product data is one of enable techniques in concurrent engineering and collaborative design environments. Beyond the traditional geometry-based data exchange, the feature-based data exchange has a lot of advantages, such as preserving the design intent. Firstly, the existing methods of feature-based data exchange are discussed. Secondly, our latest research on feature-based data exchange is presented. Finally, the comparison of our methods with former typical methods is analyzed with cased study.