CyberEye, an Internet-enabled collaborative design environment

grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis presents an Internet-enabled, platform-independent, distributed collaborative design environment by applying cutting-edge Java3D technologies and Internet technologies (such as ASP and Java Servlet). The proposed environment integrates the Product Visualization Module (the 3D CAD browser), the Product Information Management Module and the Team Management Module to support the execution of multidisciplinary team design on the Internet. A novel approach adopting Java3D API and Java servlet technology is proposed to implement the 3D CAD browser. The Product Information Management Module is used to achieve 'shared understanding' of product data and provides the facilities to control access to shared information and two-way information exchange between clients and server. The Team Management Module not only manages the activities of team participants, but also supports both asynchronous and synchronous distributed interactions amongst them.M.A.Sc