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The shape of newly developed products is becoming an increasingly dominant factor in
industry. This is especially true for consumer products, the appearance of which is more and
more often of first concern to the company and to the customers. The designer or the stylist,
who is responsible for the aesthetic value of the product, needs to be supported by dedicated
Computer-Aided Industrial Design (CAID) tools, several of which have appeared on the
market recently. CAID tools should accomplish two functions. First, they should enable the
fast, flexible and natural creation and manipulation of 3D objects, in particular their shape.
Second, they should provide feedback to the user about the integrity of the design with respect
to engineering factors such as manufacturing, cost, etc. The problem of offering both
functions simultaneously is far from being solved. One approach to integrate design flexibility
with technical evaluation is based on the representation of the design model by parameterized
features [1]. The designer then obtains flexibility in the sense that he/she can quickly search in
the particular parameter space, while constraining the parameter values within a predefined
region that would satisfy the engineering conditions. Obviously, this approach will be
successful only if the proper parameterization is provided. This is a highly nontrivial issue
since it involves a mapping between aesthetic aspects and (e.g.) manufacturing aspects [2],
which is particularly difficult for free-form products. For a number of subtasks in engineering,
however, working with parameterized shape is very effective, which is reflected by the
widespread application of parametric modelers in industry. |
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