simkin@ginosko.samsung.com (Rick Simkin / Samsung Software America) (04/08/89)
I've been asked to locate any CAD/CAM systems that store their data using commercially available database products. (The CAD/CAM systems I know of all use proprietary databases to store their designs.) I'd appreciate any leads the people in netland could provide me. Please send e-mail; if there's enough interest, I'll summarize the results. Thanks in advance! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rick Simkin || Phone: +1 (508) 685-7200 x128 Samsung Software America, Inc. || Internet: simkin@samsung.com 1 Corporate Drive || UUCP: uunet!ginosko!simkin Andover, Massachusetts 01810 USA || (uunet, cg-atla, ulowell or infinet)
the@cs.utexas.edu (Khe-Sing The) (04/08/89)
In article <1014@ginosko.samsung.com>, simkin@ginosko.samsung.com (Rick Simkin / Samsung Software America) writes: > > I've been asked to locate any CAD/CAM systems that store their data using > commercially available database products. (The CAD/CAM systems I know of all > use proprietary databases to store their designs.) I have heard of such system. Cbase 1.0 from Univ of Southern California uses Vbase, a commercially available object oriented database from Ontologic. For reference, see the article about it in Proc. IEEE International Conf. on CAD 1988, page 392--395. --- Khe-Sing The @ CS Dept, U Texas Austin. Internet & UUCP: the@cs.utexas.edu +1 512 471 9572 BITNET: the%cs@UTA3081 THEnet/SPAN: UTADNX::MAILER%"the@cs"
simkin@ginosko.samsung.com (Rick Simkin) (04/19/89)
My thanks to those people who responded to my request for information about
CAD/CAM products running on top of commercial databases. I've gotten enough
direct inquiries on what information I received that I've decided to post a
summary to the network.
More than one person told me that CAD/CAM developers consider commercially
available DBMSs to be inadequate for the needs of CAD/CAM applications.
However, people also told me the following:
- Cbase 1.0 from the University of Southern California uses VBase as its
database; there's an article about it in Proceedings of the IEEE
International Conference on CAD 1988, pp. 392-395. VBase is produced
by Ontologic.
Ontologic Inc.
47 Manning Road
Billerica MA, 01821
(508) 667-2383
- The CAD Framework Initiative might be addressing the issue of standardized
CAD/CAM data storage.
CAD Framework Initiative
c/o MP Associates
7490 Clubhouse Rd. #102
Boulder, CO 80301
(303) 530-4562
- Intergraph has just announced its Relational Interface System, which lets
its VAX-based graphics packages run on top of Ingres, Oracle and Informix.
Intergraph Corporation
Huntsville, AL
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Rick Simkin || Phone: +1 (508) 685-7200 x128
Samsung Software America, Inc. || Internet: simkin@samsung.com
1 Corporate Drive || UUCP: uunet!ginosko!simkin
Andover, Massachusetts 01810 USA || (uunet, cg-atla, ulowell or infinet)