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

DS 116: Proceedings of the DESIGN2022 17th International Design Conference

Year: 2022
Editor: Mario Štorga, Stanko Škec, Tomislav Martinec, Dorian Marjanović
Author: Peter Rosso (1), James Gopsill (1,2), Stuart C. Burgess (1), Ben Hicks (1)
Series: DESIGN
Institution: 1: University of Bristol, United Kingdom; 2: Centre for Modelling & Simulation, United Kingdom
Section: Artificial Intelligence and Data-Driven Design
Page(s): 1737-1746
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2022.176
ISSN: 2732-527X (Online)

Abstract

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 practice, design management, model-based engineering (MBE), object-oriented design