Abstract:When an artefact is designed the typical output consists of documents describing the final result of a long series of deliberations and trade-offs by the participants of collaborative design (AKA concurrent engineering) teams. The underlying intent and logical support (i.e. the rationale) for the decisions captured therein is usually lost, or is represented at best as a scattered, difficult-to-access collection of paper documents and designers' recollections. This is particularly true for geometric, as opposed… Show more
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