AN INTELLIGENT INTEGRATED INTERACTIVE CAD - A PRELIMINARY-REPORT

This paper describes a preliminary report about a project to develop a third generation intelligent CAD system, called IIICAD (Intelligent Integrated Interactive CAD) system, which is currently conducted at the University of Tokyo. First, we show that from design experiments we can obtain a cognitive design process model that can be transformed to a computable model. Second, we discuss that qualitative physics can be used to describe knowledge about the physical world and to construct a new framework called metamodel for representing design objects. Third, we describe the construction of the IIICAD system that can demonstrate the usefulness of formalizing design processes and of having an integrated data description framework. A prototype of IIICAD is also shown.