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A lot of research work has been focused on integrating FEA (finite elements analysis) with CAD (Computer Aided Design) over the last decade. In spite of improvements brought by this integration, research work remains to be done in order to better integrate all the operations led during the whole design process. The design process involves several modifications of an initial design solution and until...
A method towards robust and efficient medial axis transform (MAT) of arbitrary domains using distance solutions is presented. The distance field, d, is calculated by solving the hyperbolic-natured Eikonal (or Level Set) equation. The solution is obtained on Cartesian grids. Both the fast-marching method and fast-sweeping method are used to calculate d. Medial axis point clouds are then extracted based...
This paper presents an effective method for automatic topology recovery of non-manifold geometries. Mixing topology recovery and geometry noise detection/removal allowed us to achieve effectively the automation and robustness required by such methods. We developped our method on CAD boundary representation (BREP) geometries in the context of surface mesh generation, but it could also be directly applied...
One of the most widely used algorithms to generate hexahedral meshes in extrusion volumes with several source and target surfaces is the multi-sweeping method. However, the multi-sweeping method is highly dependent on the final location of the nodes created during the decomposition process. Moreover, inaccurate location of inner nodes may generate erroneous imprints of the geometry surfaces such that...
We propose a method to automatically defeature a CAD model by detecting irrelevant features using a geometry-based size field and a method to remove the irrelevant features via facet-based operations on a discrete representation. A discrete B-Rep model is first created by obtaining a faceted representation of the CAD entities. The candidate facet entities are then marked for reduction by using a geometry-based...
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