Formal ontology and CAD integration with macro parametric approach

ABSTRACTThis paper discusses an ontological integration framework in the context of mereotopological formal ontology and CAD systems. Based on a comprehensive literature review of current design knowledge management and formal ontology research works, the authors propose the integration framework that can incorporate design knowledge with CAD systems. The primary role of mereotopology in this research work is the formal representation of design knowledge for the 3D solid assembly models. Most of the existing research works about design ontology present an abstract form and often require significant additional efforts to be integrated into CAD systems. Thus, this work introduces a formal ontology for CAD (OCAD) and macro-parametric approach as a practical way to integrate design knowledge with CAD systems. For the implementation, Protege, SPARQL, and commercial CAD system are employed. We also propose the enhancement of the developed framework for the future use to aid dynamic modeling.

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