Aid for the user of a CAD system: CADCOACH--the expert tutor
Abstract
The short period of obsolescence is the outcome of rapid technological progress of computing machinery. Relative to this period the time necessary for the mastery of any modern CAD system is too long. To overcome this difficulty in a mechanical design environment, an engineering communication system prototype was developed based on CAD, database and an expert system shell. This system tutors the user on the current usage of the equipment and searches for similar designs for use, adaptation, or tutoring purposes. This objective is attained by storing and providing procedural information on the designs in the database collected automatically from human experts. The material stored can be edited and updated resulting in an accumulative improvement of methods, ways and means. The retrieval of the information is impersonal and simple. The user, expert or novice, can be aided by it and expertise on the system can be made use of by the entire group working on the same system.
Degree
Ph.D.
Advisors
Barash, Purdue University.
Subject Area
Industrial engineering
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