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A tool for visualization of CAD model component relations using DSM

With today's increased level of product complexity during the product development, traceability is an approach which naturally fits into an environment where future decisions need to be made fast and precise with the broad spectrum of context surrounding the product. Knowing the decision making process and how conflicts inside issues were resolved helps future versioning and product variants. Knowledge gathered during the development process can be reused and it helps to achieve better efficiency while shortening the time for finalizing similar future projects. The existing tools and methods for product development are not able to deal with today’s complex dependencies in product development. In the paper a method for automatic recognition of relations between the components of a mechanical assembly was described. Captured relations are analysed using DSM and used to support traceability during product development.

computer aided design (CAD) ; design structure matrix (DSM) ; visualisation ; complexity

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