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CAD/CAPP Integration using Feature Ontology

Christel Dartigues

I3S UNSA-CNRS - 2000, route des lucioles, Les Algorithmes - bât. Euclide B, dartigue{at}unice.fr

Parisa Ghodous

LIRIS, University Claude Bernard of Lyon, 43, Boulevard du 11 novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France

Michael Gruninger

NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-3460, USA

Denis Pallez

LIRIS, University Claude Bernard of Lyon, 43, Boulevard du 11 novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France

Ram Sriram

NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-3460, USA

In a collaborative computer-supported engineering environment, the interoperation of various applications will need a representation that goes beyond the current geometry-based representation, which is inadequate for capturing semantic information. The primary purpose of this study is to discuss a semantically based information exchange protocol that will facilitate seamless interoperability among current and next generation computer-aided design systems (CAD) and between CAD and other systems that use product data. An ontological approach is described to integrating computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided process planning (CAPP). Two commercial software applications are used to demonstrate the approach. This involves the development of a shared ontology and domain specific ontologies in the Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF) language. Domain specific ontologies — which are feature-based — are developed after a detailed analysis of the CAD and the CAPP software. Mapping between the domain ontologies and the shared ontology is achieved by several mapping rules. The approach is validated by using a variety of parts.

Key Words: CAD • CAPP • interoperability • ontologies • design • process planning • knowledge interchange format.

Concurrent Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 2, 237-249 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1063293X07079312
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