Building design with a multi-discipline CAD system using object-oriented environment

摘要

The aim of our paper is to present a multi-discipline CADrnsystem named CONCEPTOR which allows the user to workrnduring the various stages of the building engineering design. Mostrnof the actions are dedicated to the building performancesrnassessment for various technical domains with an extension ofrntools towards:rn- economical estimating,rn- quality analysis,rn- checking of the solutions according to the regulations, thernstandards and the constraints established by the designer,rn- coherence of the various works and solutions.rnDuring the design process we try to manage thernconsequences of a modification on the results of the previousrncalculations made by the user.rnIn order to carry out these actions we have chosen tornuse an object-oriented approach which made the management ofrnthe dynamic evolution of data easier.rnWe propose to develop:rn- a definition of the objectives of the CAD systemrnaccording to the needs of the designer.rn- a definition of data structuration taking the variousrnrepresentations of the same object into account.rn- an example of evaluation tools for the thermalrncomponent.rn- techniques for data generation according to the needs ofrntechnical modules.rn- the way we manage the multi-discipline design and thernadditional aspects (quality, coherence …)