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Towards an Object-Oriented Data Model for a Mechanical CAD Database System

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This paper discusses an ongoing research project to design and implement an object-oriented data management system for a mechanical CAD environment. This system will manage hierarchically structured objects stored in main memory and secondary storage. Recent work has been devoted to a requirements analysis for the data model of this system. To aid in identifying these requirements, an object-oriented solid modeling system was developed. We give a brief overview of this system, discuss requirements for the data model, and present the first version of this data model.

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  1. Institut für Informatik, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstraße 190, CH-8057, Zürich, Germany

    Klaus R. Dittrich

  2. Cambridge Research Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corporation, One Kendall Square, Building 700, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Umeshwar Dayal

  3. GTE Laboratories Incorporated, 40 Sylvan Road, 0234, Waltham, MA, USA

    Alejandro P. Buchmann

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Spooner, D.L. (1991). Towards an Object-Oriented Data Model for a Mechanical CAD Database System. In: Dittrich, K.R., Dayal, U., Buchmann, A.P. (eds) On Object-Oriented Database Systems. Topics in Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84374-7_13

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