Integrating Design Tools for Building Design
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This paper examines the methods being devised at Victoria University to provide an intelligent, knowledge based interface to expert systems, simulation packages and CAD systems for architectural design. Currently a large amount of information is duplicated in describing a building to different design tools. To enable designers to use different design tools to evaluate a building design, without having to duplicate so much of their effort, we propose a system that uses a common building model to represent their knowledge of a building. On top of this building model we provide an interfacing mechanism to move information between the different design tools and the common building model.
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