Abstract
To consider life cycle options at the early phase of design leads to significant reductions in the environmental loads for the whole product life cycle. We have proposed an agent-oriented design support system for life cycle design which agentifies the 3D-CAD solid models with attribute information to obtain design ideas which satisfy environmental requirements at the early phase of design based on 3D-CAD. A designer creates simplified 3D-CAD solid models and adds the attribute information such as designer's intention, disposal process and material properties to each component model. The present study applies the proposed system to the evaluation of the environmental loads of an example problem, that is, a cleaner model created by 3D-CAD.
