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- From: dmittleman@misvax.mis.arizona.edu (Daniel Mittleman)
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- Subject: Re: Group design software overview?
- Message-ID: <25JUL199214532844@misvax.mis.arizona.edu>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 21:53:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.112552.29619@hellgate.utah.edu>, jhjacobs%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (James Jacobs) writes...
- >One of the goals of the systems project I'm working on is that it
- >should support CAD applications. Since CAD seems to be heading towards
- >should cooperative (or group) design, I'm interested in find out what
- >type of systems support these applications need. Can anyone point me at
- >a general overview of group design software?
-
- I know of a couple of tools. I am working on a GroupSystems (U of
- Arizona GDSS toolkit) tool which is primarily intended for pre-design
- work in architecture - but some of its features might be extendible
- into the design phase. Mark Pendergast of the University of Florida
- and Ventana Corporation (pendergast@ventana.com) has developed a tool
- called GroupGraphics which is a robust group graphics editor. It will
- be demoed by Ventana at Groupware '92. I am making use of his tool for
- architecture pre-design.
-
- I recently returned from the "Design and Decision Support Systems in
- Architecture" conference in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. At the
- conference there was one other individual who presented a paper about
- multi-user graphics systems. If you are interested, send me e-mail and
- I will dig out his name for you. He is based in Britain and is trying
- to set up a distributed design environment in Britain and New Zealand.
- It was interesting - but I do not know far along his actual work is.
-
- I question your statement that "CAD seems to be heading towards
- cooperative design." I have seen no evidence that this is the case in
- practice - and have run into considerable hostility when broaching the
- topic with practicing architects. Most architects view design as
- inherently an individual activity.
-
- danny
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