Infrastructure Model State Distribution for Asynchronous Collaboration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing CAD systems fail to provide a dynamic method for designers to communicate and share the reasoning behind design decisions in real-time, relying on static views like images or videos that do not allow for live model inspection and manipulation.
Innovation Solution
A method that captures the state of an infrastructure model, including environmental settings and active features, and shares it as a link, enabling recipients to open the model in the same context, allowing for real-time exploration and manipulation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If static views (renders, images, or video) are shared to communicate design decisions, then information can be conveyed to collaborators, but the ability to inspect and interrogate the design problem in the live model is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a copy of the model state at a specific point in time, capturing all environmental settings, visible features, and analysis states. This copy is then shared with collaborators, allowing them to inspect the design problem in the context of the original model without needing to be physically present at the designer's desk.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a designer shares a point in time of a model with collaborators, then remote and asynchronous collaboration is enabled, but the system complexity increases compared to static sharing methods
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by capturing and freezing the model state at a specific point in time before sharing it with collaborators. This preliminary capture of the state includes all environmental settings, visible features, and analysis states, which simplifies the subsequent sharing process by pre-packaging all necessary context information.
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AI summary
A method and system provide the ability to asynchronously collaborate on a model of an infrastructure project. The model is acquired and view settings for the model are captured. The view settings include a feature highlight that provides display attributes/settings for objects and/or features of the model, a camera position providing second settings relating to a camera view of the model, and a data view providing third settings regarding a view of the model data. The view settings are associated with a link. The link is transmitted/provided from a sender to a recipient. The link enables rehydration of a live model based on the captured view settings thereby presenting a state and view settings of the model specified by the sender.