Collaborative CAD in Support of Engineering Design Reviews

Abstract The focus of this paper is on evaluating the needs of distributed design reviews and establishing requirements on tools to support designer reviews. Specifically, this research explores the US Department of Defense acquisition process. This literature review and requirement generation explores the impact of Multi-User CAD (MUCAD) systems on collaborative design reviews and how quasi-asynchronous design reviews using MUCAD systems can enhance the understanding of product design. This paper describes synchronous and asynchronous design reviews to make a case for a combined approach that utilizes MUCAD systems. In this research, the generated requirements for a successful collaborative MUCAD system are divided into seven categories: concurrency, heterogeneity, annotations, IP protection, security, version control, and viewing. This paper serves as a guideline for future tests.