CAD Systems Development: Tools and Methods

✍ Scribed by Olaf Abeln (auth.), Dieter Roller, Pere Brunet (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 359
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Future computer aided design systems will themselves be designed using tools and methods that are still under development. This book presents the latest progress in research on the tools and methods needed to develop those CAD systems. The topics covered include algorithmic aspects, the product data and development process, future CAD architectures, feature based modeling and automatic feature recognition, complex surface design, and system implementation issues.
The book contains contributions by the world's leading experts in the field of CAD technology from both universities and industry. The contributions are based on lectures given at the International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The “CAD-Reference-Model” An Architectural Approach to Future CAD-Systems....Pages 3-19
CAx Systems Architecture of the Future....Pages 20-31
EREP Project Overview....Pages 32-40
New ECAD System Technology....Pages 41-54
Cooperative Product Development with heterogeneous CAD systems via EDM and Broadband Communication Technique....Pages 55-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Product Modelling for Design for Manufacture and Design for Assembly....Pages 73-88
Extracting Reusable Product Data....Pages 89-105
Virtual Prototyping - An Open System Environment to Support the Integrated Product Development Process....Pages 106-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Feature validation and conversion....Pages 121-142
Classification of generic shape features for the recognition of specific feature instances....Pages 143-156
Stability Features for Free Form Surfaces....Pages 157-164
Representation Scheme for Feature-based Parametric Design....Pages 165-179
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Transfinite B-spline Interpolation with Derivatives....Pages 183-198
Surface reconstruction and variable offset....Pages 199-206
Variable-Order Surface Reconstruction Through Region Growing....Pages 207-218
On the Conversion of Dupin Cyclide into Principal Patches....Pages 219-231
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Extension of STEP for the Representation of Parametric and Variational Models....Pages 237-250
A Generalised Segment Concept....Pages 251-264
A Hybrid Constraint Solver Using Exact and Iterative Geometric Constructions....Pages 265-279
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
An Adaptive Algorithm to Compute the Medial Axis Transform of 2-D Polygonal Domains....Pages 283-298
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
Tools for Mechanical Analysis and Simulation....Pages 299-312
Construction Of The Constrained Delaunay Triangulation Of A Polygonal Domain....Pages 313-326
Multiresolution Approximation of Polyhedral Solids....Pages 327-343
Handling Very Complex Environments Using a Discrete Visibility Graph....Pages 344-356
Back Matter....Pages 357-362

✦ Subjects

Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design