To overcome the bottleneck of the one-way translation from VR （ virtual reality） to CAD in VR-based CAD system, this paper proposes a Web-based VR-CAD system WVCD （ Web-based virtual conceptual designer） to suppor...To overcome the bottleneck of the one-way translation from VR （ virtual reality） to CAD in VR-based CAD system, this paper proposes a Web-based VR-CAD system WVCD （ Web-based virtual conceptual designer） to support both customers＇and design team members＇involvement in the conceptual design and analysis activity over the Internet. It provides users with both parametric and freehand methods to create and edit 3D conceptual models with different levels of complexity in a VR environment intuitively without the need of switching between the VR environment and CAD tools. As a simple and low-cost VR-CAD system, WVCD can help to popularize and improve the Web-based collaborative conceptual design.展开更多
文摘To overcome the bottleneck of the one-way translation from VR （ virtual reality） to CAD in VR-based CAD system, this paper proposes a Web-based VR-CAD system WVCD （ Web-based virtual conceptual designer） to support both customers＇and design team members＇involvement in the conceptual design and analysis activity over the Internet. It provides users with both parametric and freehand methods to create and edit 3D conceptual models with different levels of complexity in a VR environment intuitively without the need of switching between the VR environment and CAD tools. As a simple and low-cost VR-CAD system, WVCD can help to popularize and improve the Web-based collaborative conceptual design.
