Design of Agent-based Collaborative Design Platform for Intelligent CAD

Intelligent computer aided design (ICAD) is an important direction to the development of CAD. The multi-agent technology is applied to the traditional CAD. An agent-based collaborative design platform for Intelligent CAD(Co-Cad platform for short) is designed in this paper. It uses the JADE(Java agent development framework) as developing agent platform and adopts Jess as the rule engine of the expert system. Agents can communicate and collaborate by means of JADE platform. Adopting the expert system, the platform can help designers to reason and make decisions. Multimedia technology is also integrated into Co-Cad platform, communication and identity authentication among collaborative designers from different areas are more convenient. Finally, the process of collaborative design using Co-Cad platform is demonstrated.