TY - JOUR AB - Neutral format translators such as STEP and IGES have been used to exchange CAD model between the various CAD systems in the product development process. But imperfect interoperability imposes costs on the industry due to higher costs of design and production and slower implementation of design changes. In this paper, we propose a procedural approach to inspect the CAD model's errors that occur in a neutral format. We employed two separate inspection processes for checking CAD model errors without wasting excessive resources: the topological data structure and the geometrical data structure. We developed the 3D CAD model inspection system to check the topological and geometrical errors and applied it to case study. An inspection record can be edited in HTML, and thus can be shared by any designer at any time. VL - 21 IS - 7 SN - 0264-4401 DO - 10.1108/02644400410548378 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/02644400410548378 AU - Yang Jeongsam PY - 2004 Y1 - 2004/01/01 TI - A procedural approach of inspecting CAD model errors T2 - Engineering Computations PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 736 EP - 747 Y2 - 2024/09/21 ER -