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Does CAD Smell Like Code? A Mapping Between Violation of Object Oriented Programming Design Principles and Computer Aided Design Modelling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2022

P. Rosso ,
J. Gopsill ,
S. C. Burgess  and
B. Hicks
P. Rosso*
Affiliation:
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
J. Gopsill
Affiliation:
University of Bristol, United Kingdom Centre for Modelling & Simulation, United Kingdom
S. C. Burgess
Affiliation:
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
B. Hicks
Affiliation:
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
*
peter.rosso@bristol.ac.ukik

Abstract

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In objected-oriented design, "smells" are symptoms of code violating design principles. When a deadline is looming, decisions can affect the long-term quality of a code or CAD. Given this and the similarities between object-oriented code and CAD models, this paper introduces a set of CAD smells. These smells are derived from a top-down review of potential CAD smells mapped against the reported code smells that violate abstraction, modularity, encapsulation, and hierarchy principles. This list was further reviewed considering CAD systems and specific examples (some illustrated in the paper).

Keywords

computer-aided design (CAD)design practicedesign managementmodel-based engineering (MBE)object-oriented design

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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 2: DESIGN2022 , May 2022 , pp. 1737 - 1746
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