Automatic detection of sweep-meshable volumes
US7050951B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 8, 2001 |
| Grant date | May 23, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 3, 2023 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T17/20
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method of and software for automatically determining whether a mesh can be generated by sweeping for a representation of a geometric solid comprising: classifying surface mesh schemes for surfaces of the representation locally using surface vertex types; grouping mappable and submappable surfaces of the representation into chains; computing volume edge types for the representation; recursively traversing surfaces of the representation and grouping the surfaces into source, target, and linking surface lists; and checking traversal direction when traversing onto linking surfaces.
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