Abstract: Architectural design involves multi-disciplinary collaboration and the sharing and
exchange of large building data set, a great part of which is model view information. As one of the
key technologies of building collaborative design, model view management is foundational to
coordinate the information sharing and exchange among disciplines. The technological
characteristic of layer-based and object-based view management is researched, and the
implementing measures of model view management both in 2D collaborative design and 3D
model-based collaborative design are presented. Based on the above measures, the implementation
of model view management of collaborative design in the platforms of AutoCAD and Revit is
presented.

Key words: CAD, collaborative design, model view management, 3D building design;
building information modeling