3D Collaborative Design Research Articles

Research And Application Of 3D Collaborative Design in Oil and Gas Field Surface Engineering

With the constant development of major oil and gas fields at home and abroad towards the direction of digitalization and intelligent technologies, the traditional surface engineering process has encountered the challenges of limited professional collaborative design and poor data connection, etc. The advanced 3D collaborative design has gradually become the mainstream platform of oil and gas field surface engineering design due to its features of a higher degree of model reduction and its advantages of cross-discipline, cross-platform, and cross-region collaborative design. However, in the course of current station modeling and designing, due to the complexity of engineering and the limits of design software, etc., the problems of mutual transmission failure amongst models and the loss of attribute information are prone to occur, causing a bad impact on the work efficiency of 3D collaborative design. In this paper, the commonly used 3D collaborative design software in oil and gas fields has been systematically discussed along with the common issues and their solutions in aspects of 3D design analyzed. Moreover, the effective application of collaborative design in the stage of procurement and construction, and the stage of the operation and maintenance of the digital station shall be separately discussed. While improving the efficiency of 3D collaborative design, it also plays the role of guidance in strengthening the digital and intelligent construction foundation of oil and gas fields.

Application and Study of 3D Parameterization in Standardized Design of Sluice

Sluice is the most important and commonly used control building in water conservancy engineering system. In order to improve the design level of sluice and the utilization rate of social public resources, and facilitate the management of sluice project, It is necessary to carry out 3D collaborative design with Revit parametric family in the application research of sluice standardized design. The goal of design parameterization, construction standardization and management unification is expected. The common sluice project in water conservancy project is adopted as an example in this paper, and the method of building parametric sluice on Revit platform is studied, which provides a reference for the parametric engineering of the basic design industry.

基于Bentley软件推广地下采矿三维协同设计分析与探讨

基于Bentley软件推广地下采矿三维协同设计分析与探讨

Exploration Application of BIM technology on artificial island engineering

With the continuous development of the transportation industry, the project of artificial traffic island is attracting more and more attention. However, the traditional design method has not met requirements for the complex structures of artificial islands. This paper discusses the application of BIM technology in the field of the design for artificial islands. Based on the practical engineering, the paper further proposes how to effectively use the BIM technology in the complex designs of artificial traffic islands, and presents the application effect. Finally, the BIM technology is successfully and effectively applied to the implement of 3D collaborative design, visualization of engineering design, and demonstration of construction progress.*This paper is Supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Public Welfare Research Institutes(TKS160301).

Application of 3D Laser Scanning Technology in Complex Rock Foundation Design

Taking the complex landform of Tanxi Mountain Landscape Bridge as an example, the application of 3D laser scanning technology in the mapping of complex rock foundations is studied in this paper. A set of 3D laser scanning technologies are formed and several key engineering problems are solved. The first is 3D laser scanning technology of complex landforms. 3D laser scanning technology is used to obtain a complete 3D point cloud data model of the complex landform. The detailed and accurate results of the surveying and mapping decrease the measuring time and supplementary measuring times. The second is 3D collaborative modeling of the complex landform. A 3D model of the complex landform is established based on the 3D point cloud data model. The super-structural foundation model is introduced for 3D collaborative design. The optimal design plan is selected and the construction progress is accelerated. And the last is finite-element analysis technology of the complex landform foundation. A 3D model of the complex landform is introduced into ANSYS for building a finite element model to calculate anti-slide stability of the rock, and provides a basis for the landform foundation design and construction.

Collaborative 3D design with BDMUD method: the effects of building on cityscape reflections on urban planning

Este estudio examina un edificio situado en el eje vial Adana-Ankara, en Kayseri, y su relacion con su entorno inmediato en terminos de diseno urbano, durante su proceso de diseno y construccion, asi como posterior esta ultima. Consta de dos secciones principales. La primera examina el uso del metodo de gestion del diseno de un edificio en el diseno urbano (BDMUD) en relacion a este edificio. El BDMUD es un nuevo metodo propuesto para integrar diseno urbano, planificacion urbana y diseno arquitectonico, mediante la adicion de la planificacion colaborativa, la Realidad Virtual (VR) y el Modelado de Informacion de Construccion (BIM). La segunda seccion es una encuesta posterior a la construccion para evaluar el exito del metodo BDMUD en terminos de tamano del edificio, forma geometrica (forma sucesiva), proporcion, material, distribucion, diseno y el uso del suelo por parte del edificio, realizada a un grupo objetivo de urbanistas y arquitectos, con sede en Kayseri, y a estudiantes de arquitectura (especificamente de cursos superiores) del Departamento de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Erciyes. El grupo de de encuestados representa a agentes que tienen un papel en la transformacion de los espacios urbanos, capaces de dar una opinion sobre el diseno urbano. Los resultados de la encuesta se presentan en comparacion porcentual. En estos, el 100% de los arquitectos, el 85,7% de los planificadores urbanos y el 94% de los estudiantes de arquitectura reconocieron que el edificio fue disenado utilizando el metodo BDMUD, debido a su diferenciacion de los otros edificios del eje de la calle. En otras palabras, de acuerdo con el 91,1% de los participantes, el metodo BDMUD implico una diferenciacion entre este edificio y los otros en terminos de forma, proporcion, materiales y diseno del mismo. Por otro lado, en terminos de uso del suelo en este sitio, por parte del edificio, el 62,75% de los participantes prefiere el uso mixto con uso comercial en la planta baja y el uso residencial en los pisos superiores, mientras que el 37,25% de los participantes prefiere el uso comercial exclusivo. Se necesita mas investigacion para crear nuevos lineamientos para codigos de construccion, basados ​​en el metodo BDMUD para calles importantes, avenidas y accesos a la ciudad.

Collaborative Design Principles From Minecraft With Applications to Multi-User Computer-Aided Design

Synchronous collaborative (“multi-user”) computer-aided design (CAD) is a current topic of academic and industry interest due to its potential to reduce design lead times and improve design quality through enhanced collaboration. Minecraft, a popular multiplayer online game in which players can use blocks to design structures, is of academic interest as a natural experiment in a collaborative 3D design of very complex structures. Virtual teams of up to 40 simultaneous designers have created city-scale models with total design times in the thousands of hours. Using observation and a survey of Minecraft users, we offer insights into how virtual design teams might effectively build, communicate, and manage projects in a multi-user CAD design environment. The results suggest that multi-user CAD will be useful and practical in an engineering setting with several simultaneous contributors. We also discuss the effects of multi-user CAD on team organization, planning, design concurrency, communication, and mentoring.

Implementation and application study on 3D collaborative design for CFETR based on ENOVIA VPM

China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) is an ITER-like superconducting tokamak device and it is under conceptual design. The paper is to highlight the building of the collaborative platform and its application in design work. First, a collaborative framework between collaborators is proposed and a method based-on Riverbed to optimize WAN is adopted to improve the data transmission. Then it proposes a Unified Modeling Language (UML) approach for specification of PDM (Product Documents Management) system implementation to enable management of whole product data and related information about its entire lifecycle. At last, the chosen approach for modeling based on UML is detailed and the relational design based-on skeleton is instanced for CFETR.

Analysis on Application Prospect of BIM Technology in Granary Designing

BIM is a kind of multidimensional model information technology based on CAD which has been applied in some large projects at home and abroad. The technology of BIM has the characteristics of 3D visualization, virtual design and collaborative design and so on. In this paper, ideas about applying BIM Technology in granary projects have been put forward from the design stage, project implementation stage and the stage of cost control by taking a big diameter underground silo of reinforced concrete for example, simulating the architecture, structure, process of construction and process of grain flowing of underground silos, then creating the model of architecture, dynamic construction model of 4D. The article provides a new approach of applying BIM technology to granary facilities.

Technological Study on the 3D Collaborative Design System Oriented Project Management

The concept and content of project management in the networked collaborative design system is presented according to the mechanical product design typical process and its state-of-the-art requirement. The key technologies of the collaborative project management are studied mainly, the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (F-AHP) algorithm is employed to select collaborative partners, the method of Design Structure Matrix (DSM) is put forward in process of decomposing and assigning design tasks, and the weight-coefficient recursively statistic algorithm is used in controlling task schedule. The implementing technologies of the 3D networked collaborative design system oriented project management are researched simultaneously, such as collaborative data communication, conversation tool and design tool. The archetypal system platform was developed, it's proved that the 3D collaborative design system is qualified for complex mechanical product collaborative design by synergic team.

Research on Tolerance Analysis System Based on 3D Collaborative Design Platform

Computer supported collaborative work (CSCW) technology is used to solve the resource-sharing problems in collaborative design, analysis, and manufacture. To address this need, a system called CollabVue for collaborative product design between designers and manufacturers is proposed in this study. This paper first introduces the framework of tolerance analysis system based on CollabVue, and then discusses the utilization of geometric topology information in 3D model to resolve the problem of dimension information input and the related specific operations. Based on object-oriented technology, a new data structure to interactively pick up and store dimension information is established. Finally the model uses iterative method to compute technological dimension chain equation.

Multi-agent collaborative 3D design with geometric model at different levels of detail

This paper presents a scheme for collaborative 3D design using product model at various levels of detail (LODs). Design features are selectively hidden at each level from certain participants, depending on their actual needs and individual accessibility in the collaboration. A tree data structure represents the feature hierarchy of CAD construction, the link between feature and LOD, and 2D mesh data for display control of each feature. An XML/XSLT-based approach is proposed to enable real-time visualization of different LOD models in distributed environment. A collaborative design system is implemented using multi-agent technologies, which focuses on function design of each agent, interactions among agents, the client–server structure, and generation of the LOD data using the XML/XSLT approach. A scenario of synchronous 3D mold assembly demonstrates that geometric categorization of product model provides an operational mechanism for assuring security of information sharing in engineering collaborations over the Internet. It also validates the effectiveness of the agent technologies for automating complex engineering activities.

The design and realization of CoViD: a system for collaborative virtual 3D design

Many important decisions in the design process are made during fairly early on, after designers have presented initial concepts. In many domains, these concepts are already realized as 3D digital m...

The design and realization of CoViD: a system for collaborative virtual 3D design

Many important decisions in the design process are made during fairly early on, after designers have presented initial concepts. In many domains, these concepts are already realized as 3D digital models. Then, in a meeting, the stakeholders for the project get together and evaluate these potential solutions. Frequently, the participants in this meeting want to interactively modify the proposed 3D designs to explore the design space better. Today’s systems and tools do not support this, as computer systems typically support only a single user and computer-aided design tools require significant training. This paper presents the design of a new system to facilitate a collaborative 3D design process. First, we discuss a set of guidelines which have been introduced by others and that are relevant to collaborative 3D design systems. Then, we introduce the new system, which consists of two main parts. The first part is an easy-to-use conceptual 3D design tool that can be used productively even by naive users. The tool provides novel interaction techniques that support important properties of conceptual design. The user interface is non-obtrusive, easy-to-learn, and supports rapid creation and modification of 3D models. The second part is a novel infrastructure for collaborative work, which offers an interactive table and several large interactive displays in a semi-immersive setup. It is designed to support multiple users working together. This infrastructure also includes novel pointing devices that work both as a stylus and a remote pointing device. The combination of the (modified) design tool with the collaborative infrastructure forms a new platform for collaborative virtual 3D design. Then, we present an evaluation of the system against the guidelines for collaborative 3D design. Finally, we present results of a preliminary user study, which asked naive users to collaborate in a 3D design task on the new system.

An Internet-enabled integrated system for co-design and concurrent engineering

In order to facilitate the product design and realisation processes, in this paper, an Internet-enabled system has been developed to support collaborative and concurrent engineering design by seamlessly integrating three functional modules, i.e., co-design, Web-based visualisation and manufacturing analysis, based on some state-of-the-art Java and Web technologies. In the co-design module, designers are equipped with co-modelling and co-modification facilities to carry out a design task collaboratively. The Web-based visualisation module provides a portal for users, who are not involved in the co-modelling process directly, to view and analyse a design part conveniently. Services in the manufacturing analysis module can be invoked by users dynamically to evaluate and optimise the manufacturing costs and the manufacturability of a design part so as to implement the concurrent engineering methodology during a co-design process. This system can be used for a design team geographically distributed to organise a 3D collaborative and concurrent engineering design effectively, and the proposed distributed and integration architectures enable the system to be generic, open and scalable.

An Internet-enabled integrated system for co-design and concurrent engineering

In order to facilitate the product design and realisation processes, in this paper, an Internet-enabled system has been developed to support collaborative and concurrent engineering design by seamlessly integrating three functional modules, i.e., co-design, Web-based visualisation and manufacturing analysis, based on some state-of-the-art Java and Web technologies. In the co-design module, designers are equipped with co-modelling and co-modification facilities to carry out a design task collaboratively. The Web-based visualisation module provides a portal for users, who are not involved in the co-modelling process directly, to view and analyse a design part conveniently. Services in the manufacturing analysis module can be invoked by users dynamically to evaluate and optimise the manufacturing costs and the manufacturability of a design part so as to implement the concurrent engineering methodology during a co-design process. This system can be used for a design team geographically distributed to organise a 3D collaborative and concurrent engineering design effectively, and the proposed distributed and integration architectures enable the system to be generic, open and scalable.

Using a 3D virtual collaborative design environment for an advanced vehicle concept review: some test results

This paper briefly describes several first- and second-generation virtual environment (VE) systems, and the results of US Army empirical testing of one second-generation system - the CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE). Compared in the test with the CAVE was the Army's traditional and proven method of reviewing advanced vehicle concepts - a PowerPoint™ briefing. Test results indicated several advantages for the VE that should be of interest to any organisation facing the need to shrink development life cycles, reduce costs, and improve product and system utility. A conclusion reached is that additional research and testing are needed to provide additional insights into the use of VE technologies to improve and support collaborative product and system development, design, and acquisition.

Visinet: collaborative 3D visualization and VR over ATM networks

Visinet-a trans-European 3D collaborative design project-brings people together in shared environments supported by ATM networks. Initial trials targeted architectural and industrial design.