Featuremodelling with an Object-Oriented Approach

The notion of ‘features’ is an integral part of the design methodology for vehicle lights at Hella and the system implementation supporting it. Object-oriented mechanisms are utilised to define part structure and behaviour models. The mechanism is part of an ‘application specific modelling platform’ or ‘framework’, which allows application software to interact with the CAD/CAM system on a high-level and to capture, evaluate and store the design intent.