Exploring a Boeing 777: Ray Tracing Large-Scale CAD Data

Author

Dietrich, Andreas ; Stephens, Abe ; Wald, Ingo

Author_Institution

Saarland Univ., Saarbrucken

Volume

27

Issue

6

fYear

2007

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

46

Abstract

This article describes the application of ray tracing to several aircraft manufacturing scenarios. Today´s computer-aided design frameworks and techniques are extensively applied in virtually all industrial engineering design projects. The emergence of modeling systems powerful enough to manage an entire geometric project database has made it possible to design complete airplanes, ships, cars, and so on, digitally. Such large-scale projects over their duration generate vast amounts of data. While CAD systems allow modeling of individual components, the complexity of geometric design data is increasing faster than the capabilities of full model visualization tools.

Keywords

CAD; aerospace computing; aircraft manufacture; engineering graphics; ray tracing; rendering (computer graphics); aircraft manufacturing; computer-aided design; geometric design data; geometric project database; industrial engineering design; ray tracing; rendering; visualization tool; Aircraft manufacture; Aircraft propulsion; Application software; Design automation; Industrial engineering; Large-scale systems; Manufacturing; Power system modeling; Ray tracing; Solid modeling; CAD; large model visualization; parallel rendering; ray tracing; real-time rendering; Aircraft; Computer Graphics; Computer Simulation; Computer Systems; Computer-Aided Design; Databases, Factual; Equipment Design; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; Information Storage and Retrieval; Models, Theoretical; User-Computer Interface;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCG.2007.147

Filename

4405653