...S.N. Samy; H.A. ElMaraghy Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present methods for assessing and mapping the complexity of products and their assembly. In cases of complexity of assembly it is important to consider and model at the product design stages when only data about individual parts...

... utilize a CAD package and gain all of the advantages of designing in 3D without the drawback of increased design time. In this paper we propose a behavioral modeling technique to capture design intent and utilize the intent maps for obtaining 3D solid models in a similar amount of time as on a 2D CAD...