Combination of automatic and interactive tools for solution space browsing

Author

Essert-Villard, Caroline ; Schreck, Pascal ; Mathis, Pascal ; Dufourd, Jean-François

Author_Institution

Lab. des Sci. de l´´Image, de l´´Informatique et de la Teledetection, Univ. Louis Pasteur, Illkirch, France

fYear

2003

fDate

16-18 July 2003

Firstpage

14

Lastpage

21

Abstract

In CAD (computer-aided design), a construction plan is a sequence of definitions coming from the solving of a dimensioned sketch. It explains how to build figures satisfying geometric constraints. However, a construction plan usually defines a whole solution space that may be very large. This paper presents a combination of automatic and interactive tools to help the designer to find more easily the expected solution among many. Then we show how they can be helpfully used to browse the entire parameterized solution space by allowing a realistic animation of constrained figures.

Keywords

CAD; computer graphics; software tools; 3D geometric construction; CAD; automatic tool; computer-aided design; constrained figure animation; construction plan; dimensioned sketch; geometric constraint satisfaction; interactive tool; solution selection; solution space browsing; Animation; Graphics; Shape; Solid modeling; Tree graphs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geometric Modeling and Graphics, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1985-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GMAG.2003.1219660

Filename

1219660