Virtual DesignWorks—designing 3D CAD models via haptic interaction
✍ Scribed by X. Liu; G. Dodds; J. McCartney; B.K. Hinds
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 467 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0010-4485
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✦ Synopsis
Haptic devices (force feedback interfaces) show great promise for use in the design of CAD models. However, current haptic systems are used primarily to verify rather than to interact with CAD systems to design a model.
The paper discusses a haptic-based CAD system-Virtual DesignWorks. It is the world's first haptic application for the design of CAD models based on component technology (COM þ ). With haptic devices, the system allows engineers, in virtual space, to directly touch a native B-Rep CAD model, and deform it by pushing, pulling and dragging its surfaces in a natural three-dimensional environment. Virtual DesignWorks adopts the novel COM-based haptic model, which demonstrates significant advantages compared to the traditional haptic models. Force feedback gives designers the greatest flexibility for the design of complex surfaces, and haptics has the potential to become a critical interface for design applications.