Emerging topics

• Bio-CAD, soft-CAD and CAD/CAM at the nanoscale;
• Gaming, advertising and tourism; knowledge engineering, design intent, intelligent CAD;
• PLM, PDM and CAD data mining;
• CAD in the garment and fashion industries;
• CAD in the arts and creative media;
• Evolutionary and genetic algorithms and generative design;
• CAD and the internet, web enabled design, virtual engineering;
• Digital/virtual prototyping, object archival and retrieval;
• Design theory, the theoretical foundations of CAD; CAD education;
• CAD engines, hardware acceleration;
• Human factors, humanizing engineering design.

Traditional topics

• Geometric, solid and heterogeneous modeling;
• CAD data bases, data exchange and standards;
• Virtual an augmented reality;
• Additive manufacturing and 3D printing;
• Applications of computational and classical geometry;
• Collaborative, conceptual and feature based design;
• Numerical control, machining theory and practice;
• Design computing, artificial intelligence in design;
• Geometric and engineering tolerances;
• Meshes, finite element analysis and discretization issues;
• Design theory.

Additional topics may also be considered. Please contact us for information.