1102 Research for Design Information and Design Rationale Integrated CAD : 3rd Report: Supporting Conceptual Design by using Descriptions of Influential Relations between Parts

Abstract

For the cooperative design activities by a design team, a designer needs design object information not only about geometrical data and these attributes but also needs the design rationale such as the reason of decision making to understand ideas of the design proposes by other designers. This paper focused on influential relations between parts of design object, and proposed descriptions and management methods of these relations. The management support system was developed, and case studies are done by using the system. As a result, proposed method can support of the management of influential relations, and this also shows proposed method have and applicable possibility to transmit design rationale to other designer.