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Record W4413738068 · doi:10.1017/pds.2025.10083

Automating the assessment of CAD drawings and solid models

2025· article· en· W4413738068 on OpenAlexaff
David S. Nobes

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the Design Society · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicManufacturing Process and Optimization
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad
KeywordsCADEngineering drawingComputer scienceComputer graphics (images)Engineering

Abstract

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ABSTRACT: The power, speed and sophistication of software for computer-aided design (CAD) drafting has revolutionized the design process and the productivity of experienced users. Assessment and mark-up of student drawings in a university class is still time-consuming and requires teaching assistants to be well-versed and proficient. This bottleneck can slow the learning of students if they are not provided with timely and proficient feedback. Software can be developed that uses the quantitative information stored in electronic files for direct comparison with a solution. This however requires an appropriate learning/teaching approach that is complementary with the assessment approach. A learning approach with complementary assessment is outlined along with the developed software for the assessment of large numbers of student submissions in a university level engineering course on drafting.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.028
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.039

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.028
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.005

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.240
Teacher spread0.228 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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