Technical gazette, Vol. 29 No. 6, 2022.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.17559/TV-20220909091201
Towards an Open-Source Industry CAD: A Review of System Development Methods
Yunlei Sun
; College of Computer Science &Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao,266580,China
Kangping Liu
; College of Computer Science &Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao,266580,China
Yucong Li
; College of Computer Science &Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao,266580,China
Dalin Zhang
; School of Software Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China
Abstract
Due to the industry knowledge barrier, general computer aided design (CAD) software cannot do everything in digital manufacturing by itself, and industry CAD, therefore, occupies a crucial position in the CAD industry. To develop industry CAD smoothly, open-source is the best choice. We analyzed recent examples of industry CAD development and divided the development methods into four types: development based on the graphics development environment, development based on geometric modelling kernel, secondary development based on general CAD, and hybrid development. We analyzed the characteristics of various methods and believe that the method based on the hybrid development of the geometric modelling kernel and the graphics development environment is the best open-source industry CAD development method. We proposed a system architecture of open-source industry CAD for reference and conducted a preliminary exploration of the reference architecture to verify its feasibility.
Keywords
CAD development method, industry CAD, open-source, system architecture
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284933
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Publication date:
29.10.2022.
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