Patent brief: System and method for hybrid solid and surface modeling for computer-aided design environments

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System and method for hybrid solid and surface
modeling for computer-aided design environments
Inventors: Rami Santina, Zuhair Haddad, Rayan Jreije
Assignee: CCT International
Developer & Distributor Developer & Distributor
U.S. Patent No. 8,725,466

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• Conceptualized in 2007/08
• Applied first draft in October 2009
• Classification : USPC 703/1
– Computer Aided Design, and more specifically to modeling
environments and objects.
• Motivation:
– Ability to model one or more shape(s) in a combination of
methods. Thus sharing parts of a surface.
– Real-time rendering without loss of modeling caps
Patent Info

• Surface Modeling
– B-Spline Surfaces
– Nurbs
– Freeform
– Subdivision Surfaces…
• Solid Modeling
– Constructive Solid Geometry
– Implicit
– Parametric
– Boundary Representation
Background
Modeling Techniques

• Each has its benefits depending on usage and
field.
• In CAD both are used in a form of either/or
where the end result is one of the object types.
• Viewers: transform everything to triangles.
– GPUs are powerful enough, and getting more
powerful
– Maintain 60 fps by hiding objects while moving
Which is better?

• Cylinder Definition:
– Radius, height, transformation matrix
– 1000 triangles
– 10000 triangles
– Boolean Operation of a larger cylinder cut by two planes.
– Extrusion of a curve (defining a circle)
– Etc…
• Resulting shape is the same
• Huge difference in capability and footprint.
Example of definitions

• A semi merge of both forms.
• Preserve the properties
inherited by objects
• Preserve the solid rules
locally (if applicable)
• Reduce un-important parts
• Dynamic rendering; change in representation
as needed.
Our Approach
General

• Divide a complex object to shells
• Depending on shell feature importance, one of
the definition is used.
• Each shell can be reused in other objects.
– In C0, or C1 continuity.
• Each Shell/Object will have a contributing factor.
Our Approach
General

• Rendering a shell: depending on contributing factor
– Render full
– Render reduced (LOD level infinite*)
– Render 1 pixel
– Discard
• Not noticeable to end users!
• Nothing is hidden & ~60 fps guaranteed*
Our Approach
Rendering

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