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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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