The EBP system: bringing programming to end-users

Programming by Demonstration has proved to be an interesting research area. Nevertheless, despite many experimental systems, it did not find any field area where it should be used extensively. In this paper, we describe a Computer Aided mechanical Design system which incorporates Programming by Demonstration capabilities, named EBP, for Example-Based Programming in Parametrics. EBP is intended to bring to mechanical draughstmen a complete environment for programming by demonstration without any textual interaction. It follows technical draughstmen habits, for example by no use of inference, and offers many programming goodies (intelligent undo/redo, visual debugging, fully integrated PbD user interface, and so on.