APPLYING BIOINFORMATICS ANALYSIS PRINCIPLES TO CAD DATA TO BETTER CHARACTERIZE AND IMPROVE THE ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS
DS 70: Proceedings of DESIGN 2012, the 12th International Design Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Year: 2012
Editor: Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad
Author: Nguyen, P. T.; Steinert, M.; Carroll, A.; Leifer, L.
Section: Design methods
Page(s): 1049-1060
Abstract
We propose to systematically collect CAD data from users and to analyse them algorithmically in order to understand, model and improve engineering Design processes. We classify designers in this case to be firstly the engineer users of various CAD softwar
Keywords: computer-aided design, design rationale, sequence and cluster analysis, automated data capture, design process