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Computer Aided Design (CAD) engineers typically do not achieve their best prototypes in a single attempt. Instead, they iterate and refine their designs to achieve an optimal solution through multiple revisions. This traditional approach,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Akshay Badagabettu , Sai Sravan Yarlagadda , Amir Barati Farimani

Deep generative models of 3D shapes have received a great deal of research interest. Yet, almost all of them generate discrete shape representations, such as voxels, point clouds, and polygon meshes. We present the first 3D generative model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Rundi Wu , Chang Xiao , Changxi Zheng

Computer-aided design (CAD) significantly enhances the efficiency, accuracy, and innovation of design processes by enabling precise 2D and 3D modeling, extensive analysis, and optimization. Existing methods for creating CAD models rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Siyu Wang , Cailian Chen , Xinyi Le , Qimin Xu , Lei Xu , Yanzhou Zhang , Jie Yang

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) models are typically constructed by sequentially drawing parametric sketches and applying CAD operations to obtain a 3D model. The problem of 3D CAD reverse engineering consists of reconstructing the sketch and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Danila Rukhovich , Elona Dupont , Dimitrios Mallis , Kseniya Cherenkova , Anis Kacem , Djamila Aouada

Computer Aided Design systems provide tools for building and manipulating models of solid objects. Some also provide access to programming languages so that parametrised designs can be expressed. There is a sharp distinction, therefore,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Omid Banyasad , Philip T. Cox

Semantic knowledge of part-part and part-whole relationships in assemblies is useful for a variety of tasks from searching design repositories to the construction of engineering knowledge bases. In this work we propose that the natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Peter Meltzer , Joseph G. Lambourne , Daniele Grandi

Cylindrical algebraic decomposition(CAD) is a key tool in computational algebraic geometry, particularly for quantifier elimination over real-closed fields. When using CAD, there is often a choice for the ordering placed on the variables.…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Zongyan Huang , Matthew England , David Wilson , James H. Davenport , Lawrence C. Paulson , James Bridge

Sketch design concepts are recurring patterns found in parametric CAD sketches. Though rarely explicitly formalized by the CAD designers, these concepts are implicitly used in design for modularity and regularity. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Yuezhi Yang , Hao Pan

Branching is a feature of distributed version control systems that facilitates the ``divide and conquer'' strategy present in complex and collaborative work domains. Branching has revolutionized modern software development and has the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Kathy Cheng , Phil Cuvin , Alison Olechowski , Shurui Zhou

Sketching is an important activity in any design process. Designers and stakeholders share their ideas through hand-drawn sketches. These sketches are further used to create 3D models. Current methods to generate 3D models from sketches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Nitish Bhardwaj , Dhornala Bharadwaj , Alpana Dubey

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) is a foundational component of industrial prototyping, where models are defined not by raw coordinates but by construction sequences such as sketches and extrusions. This sequential structure enables both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Ruiyu Wang , Shizhao Sun , Weijian Ma , Jiang Bian

Machine learning practitioners often end up tunneling on low-level technical details like model architectures and performance metrics. Could early model development instead focus on high-level questions of which factors a model ought to pay…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Michelle S. Lam , Zixian Ma , Anne Li , Izequiel Freitas , Dakuo Wang , James A. Landay , Michael S. Bernstein

We introduce a new method of generating Computer Aided Design (CAD) profiles via a sequence of simple geometric constructions including curve offsetting, rotations and intersections. These sequences start with geometry provided by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Siyi Li , Joseph G. Lambourne , Longfei Zhang , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Karl. D. D. Willis

Sketching serves as a versatile tool for externalizing ideas, enabling rapid exploration and visual communication that spans various disciplines. While artificial systems have driven substantial advances in content creation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Yael Vinker , Tamar Rott Shaham , Kristine Zheng , Alex Zhao , Judith E Fan , Antonio Torralba

The application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) remains an underexplored area, despite their remarkable advancements in other domains. In this paper, we present BlenderLLM, a novel framework for training LLMs…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Yuhao Du , Shunian Chen , Wenbo Zan , Peizhao Li , Mingxuan Wang , Dingjie Song , Bo Li , Yan Hu , Benyou Wang

Reverse engineering in the realm of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) has been a longstanding aspiration, though not yet entirely realized. Its primary aim is to uncover the CAD process behind a physical object given its 3D scan. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Mohammad Sadil Khan , Elona Dupont , Sk Aziz Ali , Kseniya Cherenkova , Anis Kacem , Djamila Aouada

Significant progress has recently been made in creative applications of large pre-trained models for downstream tasks in 3D vision, such as text-to-shape generation. This motivates our investigation of how these pre-trained models can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Aditya Sanghi , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Arianna Rampini , Joseph Lambourne , Hooman Shayani , Evan Atherton , Saeid Asgari Taghanaki

Parametric Computer-Aided Design (CAD) of articulated assemblies is essential for product development, yet generating these multi-part, movable models from high-level descriptions remains unexplored. To address this, we propose ArtiCAD, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yuan Shui , Yandong Guan , Zhanwei Zhang , Juncheng Hu , Jing Zhang , Dong Xu , Qian Yu

User Interface (UI) prototyping is a necessary step in the early stages of application development. Transforming sketches of a Graphical User Interface (UI) into a coded UI application is an uninspired but time-consuming task performed by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Vanita Jain , Piyush Agrawal , Subham Banga , Rishabh Kapoor , Shashwat Gulyani

Creating quantum algorithms is a difficult task, especially for computer scientist not used to quantum computing. But quantum algorithms often use similar elements. Thus, these elements provide proven solutions to recurring problems, i.e. a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-10 Frank Leymann