Ontological CAD Data Interoperability Framework

Computer Aided Design (CAD) has become one of the fundamental activities in the modern industry. Nowadays several products are developed and modeled using this technology. Nevertheless, extracting product features from these kind of files to use them in production processes and parametric data exchange among heterogeneous CAD systems are still difficult to achieve. This work aims to propose OWL as CAD Data Exchange Format, giving the possibility for the addition of more descriptive information of products and processes in one self-content and self-descriptive file. With this CAD OWL integration the feature extraction is facilitated, because this CAD -OWL model becomes a Knowledge Base and the reasoning tools of the Semantic Web become available. In this work a standard CAD file was mapped into the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and visualized using the Protege API's architecture in order to deal with such problems.