FEATURE-BASED MODELING BY INTEGRATING DESIGN AND RECOGNITION APPROACHES

Previous work on feature-based modelling has emphasized generating fea tures either in the design phase (design by features) or in the later product-development phases (feature-recognition). Recently, some attem pts have been made to integrate both strategies, with the major aim of combining the positive aspects while reducing the drawbacks. The pape r presents a system architecture for feature-based modelling which is founded on this integration that is obtained through the definition of a common feature library and an intermediate model, which plays the r ole of communication link between the geometric model and the feature- based model.