Parametric Web-CAD for Box Culvert Design

AbstractThis paper presents a development of Web applications to improve the process of a box culvert design and document management using XML and SVG. The box culvert is one of the simple and common structures employed repetitively in road construction. Although parametric computer applications have demonstrated a significant amount of time savings in designing simple and repetitive structures, circulating resultant electronic documents among project participants has not been fully integrated with these applications. We developed a parametric Web application in order to facilitate not only engineering design of the box culvert but also management of resultant documents over the Web. This paper presents how XML Data Island and SVG were utilized to generate engineering drawings and display them in the Web page.