Iconic CAD Automation
Iconic CAD automation is a process for enabing CAD design using icons that can be manipulated to generate technical designs in CAD. The rationale is to remove tedious, manual CAD design and convert it into a visual language, which can lead to the product of viable designs on time scales compressed by a lage factor, nominally 100x or so faster. The goal is real technical design of products, prototypes, and other economically-significant items which can then be built or manufactured - thereby placing advanced design and production capacity into the hands of average humans.
The key to this is the Expertise Embedded Design Principle - where access to part libraries of technically-correct modules or parts are made available and open source. People can take these parts, and by using design rules embodied in open source design guides, they can design anything including advanced technologies. This is like using Lego blocks to build real technology - except the designs correspond not to toys or education kits but real and useful designs that constitute the technosphere. This could include consumer goods and everything else in the consumer or material economy - such as homes, cars, and computers.
The goal is to facilitate and automate CAD design so that any individual can produce technically-correct CAD design - thereby allowing any non-engineer and non-CAD drafter to produce CAD designs rapidly.
The process works by:
- Creating part libraries of icons corresponding to real CAD.
- Creating Design Guides providing basic instructions for how to design real
- Dragging and dropping or otherwise inserting icons into a drawing document, where the icons are arranged to correspond to real technical design.
- AI parses the drawing, and produces real CAD
The short of it is - using icons to generate real CAD.
The significance is that real CAD could be produced only by engineers - and now we are enabling average humans to do this.