CAD Tools and Algorithms for Product Design

Systems to support the continuously shrinking product development cycles and the increasing quality requirements need significant enhancements and new approaches.
In this book important new tools and algorithms for future product modeling systems are presented. It is based on a seminar at the International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science, Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany, presented by internationally recognised experts in CAD technology.

“Product Templates” A Parametric Approach to Mass Customization.- A New Aesthetic Design Workflow — Results from the European Project FIORES.- Feature-Based Assembly for Aeronautics Design.- A Modeller for Preliminary Design.- Geometric Reasoning Tools for Assembly-oriented CAD.- Enhanced multiple-view feature modelling.- Navigation in Highly Polygon-Populated Ship Environments using the Visibiliy Octree.- An Algorithm for Fast 3D Picking and Snapping using a 3D Input Device and 3D Cursor.- Virtual Prototyping — The Integration of Design and Virtual Reality.- The Role of Haptic Devices for an efficient Integration of Design, Simulation and Analysis.- A Simple Algorithm for 2D-Mesh Generation by Domain Composition.- Generation of Solid Multiresolution Models.- Surface Reconstruction Based on a Descriptive Approach.- Differential Properties at Singular Points of Parametric Surfaces.- Selective Crypting with Haar-Wavelets.- Variational Design in Electrical Engineering — An Extension of Parametric Modeling.- A Geometric Relaxation Solver for Constraint-Based Models.- Steps toward a Relational 3D System.