| Creativity is a key factor for the surviving and developing of enterprises in current global competing market, and creative design, as the core of product design, greatly determines the competitiveness of the enterprise. The one who hold the advanced design technology will hold the initiative in competition. So the researches on creative design methods and tools become the main content of the design theory studies.In the formerly studies, because of defferent starting point, the existing methods and tools can only provide some support in a certain aspect, and can not be applied in all the creative design problems. Such as the systematic design can not fit the feature of ambiguous information because it is a specific-problem-solving method; and the creative thinking methods emphasize so much on emanative thinking that the efficiency is rather low. So a tool that can support all the create design process is needed to help designers and enterprises to improve the creativity and the efficiency of creative design. In addition, computer aided design has helped a lot in product design as the quick development of computer technology, however, it still not competent in computer aided conceptual design, and especially in computer aided creative design, so it is also an keystone of how to use the computer to complete creative design.By the support of national 863/CIMS program (2003AA411310), we studied a lot on creative model, creative theories and methods, cognitive science and theories, infortion technologies, and product creative design tools, and the efforts can be described in the following:1) The reaches on creative design methods. The whole product design process can be divided into five phases: obtainment of customer needs, customer needs analysis, scheme design, structure design and detail design, and the products creativity is mainly decided by the conceptual design period which includes customer needs analysis and scheme design. The existing creative... |
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