Title
User-Adaptive Sketch-Based 3-D CAD Model Retrieval
Abstract
3-D CAD models are an important digital resource in the manufacturing industry. 3-D CAD model retrieval has become a key technology in product lifecycle management enabling the reuse of existing design data. In this paper, we propose a new method to retrieve 3-D CAD models based on 2-D pen-based sketch inputs. Sketching is a common and convenient method for communicating design intent during early stages of product design, e.g., conceptual design. However, converting sketched information into precise 3-D engineering models is cumbersome, and much of this effort can be avoided by reuse of existing data. To achieve this purpose, we present a user-adaptive sketch-based retrieval method in this paper. The contributions of this work are twofold. First, we propose a statistical measure for CAD model retrieval: the measure is based on sketch similarity and accounts for users' drawing habits. Second, for 3-D CAD models in the database, we propose a sketch generation pipeline that represents each 3-D CAD model by a small yet sufficient set of sketches that are perceptually similar to human drawings. User studies and experiments that demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in the design process are presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TASE.2012.2228481
IEEE T. Automation Science and Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Solid modeling,Design automation,Shape,Vectors,Visualization,Databases,Vocabulary
Product life-cycle management,CAD,Conceptual design,Engineering drawing,Sketch-based modeling,Computer science,Engineering design process,Product design,Product lifecycle,Sketch
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
3
1545-5955
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
27
0.78
20
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yong-Jin Liu183772.83
Xi Luo2270.78
Joneja Ajay3729.50
Cuixia Ma415415.79
Xiaolan Fu578660.72
Dawei Song647245.59