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Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shen Fan , Mikołaj Kida , Przemyslaw Musialski

Computer-aided design (CAD) is vital to modern manufacturing, yet model creation remains labor-intensive and expertise-heavy. To enable non-experts to translate intuitive design intent into manufacturable artifacts, recent large language…

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Boundary Representation (BRep) is the standard format for Computer-Aided Design (CAD), yet reconstructing high-quality BReps from single-view images remains challenging due to the complexity of topological constraints and operation…

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In this paper, we introduce a new approach for retrieval and classification of 3D models that directly performs in the Computer-Aided Design (CAD) format without any conversion to other representations like point clouds or meshes, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 L. Mandelli , S. Berretti

The recent rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI), powered by Transformer networks, has achieved remarkable success in natural language processing, computer vision, and graphics. However, the application of Transformers in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Qiang Zou , Lizhen Zhu

Boundary representation (B-rep) is the industry standard for computer-aided design (CAD). While deep learning shows promise in processing B-rep models, existing methods suffer from a representation gap: continuous approaches offer…

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We introduce UV-Net, a novel neural network architecture and representation designed to operate directly on Boundary representation (B-rep) data from 3D CAD models. The B-rep format is widely used in the design, simulation and manufacturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Aditya Sanghi , Joseph G. Lambourne , Karl D. D. Willis , Thomas Davies , Hooman Shayani , Nigel Morris

3D reverse engineering is a long sought-after, yet not completely achieved goal in the Computer-Aided Design (CAD) industry. The objective is to recover the construction history of a CAD model. Starting from a Boundary Representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Elona Dupont , Kseniya Cherenkova , Anis Kacem , Sk Aziz Ali , Ilya Arzhannikov , Gleb Gusev , Djamila Aouada

Various general-purpose distributed systems have been proposed to cope with high-diversity applications in the pipeline of Big Data analytics. Most of them provide simple yet effective primitives to simplify distributed programming. While…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Yijie Mei , Yanyan Shen , Yanmin Zhu , Linpeng Huang

Triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) is emerging as an important way of designing microstructures. However, there has been limited use of commercial CAD/CAM/CAE software packages for TPMS design and manufacturing. This is mainly because…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yaonaiming Zhao , Qiang Zou

Boundary representation (B-rep) is the standard 3D modeling format in CAD systems, encoding both geometric primitives and topological connectivity. Despite its prevalence, deep generative modeling of valid B-rep structures remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Shurui Liu , Weide Chen , Ancong Wu

The Boundary representation (B-rep) format is the de-facto shape representation in computer-aided design (CAD) to model solid and sheet objects. Recent approaches to generating CAD models have focused on learning sketch-and-extrude modeling…

Boundary Representation (B-Rep) is the widely adopted standard in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and manufacturing. However, generative modeling of B-Reps remains a formidable challenge due to their inherent heterogeneity as geometric cell…

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Boundary representation (B-rep) models are the standard way 3D shapes are described in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) applications. They combine lightweight parametric curves and surfaces with topological information which connects the…

TPMS is consistently described in the functional representation (F-rep) format, while modern CAD/CAM/CAE tools are built upon the boundary representation (B-rep) format. To solve this issue, translating TPMS to STEP is needed, called…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yaonaiming Zhao , Qiang Zou

Large Computer-Aided Design (CAD) projects usually require collaboration across many different CAD systems as well as applications that interoperate with them for manufacturing, visualization, or simulation. A fundamental barrier to such…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Benjamin Jones , James Noeckel , Milin Kodnongbua , Ilya Baran , Adriana Schulz

The design of man-made objects is dominated by computer aided design (CAD) tools. Assisting design with data-driven machine learning methods is hampered by lack of labeled data in CAD's native format; the parametric boundary representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Benjamin T. Jones , Michael Hu , Vladimir G. Kim , Adriana Schulz

The boundary representation (B-Rep) is the standard data structure used in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) for defining solid models. Despite recent progress, directly generating B-Reps end-to-end with precise geometry and watertight topology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Xiang Xu , Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman , Joseph G. Lambourne , Yilin Liu , Durvesh Malpure , Pete Meltzer

Parametric CAD models, represented as Boundary Representations (B-reps), are foundational to modern design and manufacturing workflows, offering the precision and topological breakdown required for downstream tasks such as analysis,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 James Noeckel , Benjamin Jones , Adriana Schulz , Brian Curless

Graph-based machine learning has emerged as a promising approach for manufacturability analysis by learning directly from CAD models represented as Boundary Representations (B-reps), exploiting both surface geometry and topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Matteo Ballegeer , Toon Van Camp , Willem Jaspers , Alp Bayar , Aung Nyein Soe , Martin Roelfs , Dries F. Benoit , Bieke Decraemer , Joost R. Duflou
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