ACIS

ACIS

Computer-Aided Design

Published in Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Advances in Manufacturing and Processing of Materials and Structures, 2018

Nicholaos Bilalis, Emmanuel Maravelakis

Current CAD systems create the 3D model of a part through the use of surface and solid modeling operations. The most popular method today is through the use of parametric feature-based solid modeling systems, which today integrate surface features in a hybrid form. Parametric solid modeling systems were first introduced in 1985 by Samuel Geisberg, and they completely changed the capabilities of the traditional solid modeling systems. The next big step in their development was through the development of the Solid Modeling Kernels, and the first kernel was ROMULUS and then the more modern ACIS (Corney and Lim, 2005), Parasolid and CGM (Convergence Geometric Modeler).

Service oriented cross-platform framework for 3D part library based on diversiform knowledge implantation

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Published in Computer-Aided Design and Applications, 2018

Wei Liu, Qiang Niu, Chuipin Kong, Xionghui Zhou

Without the support from built-in CAD systems, the real-time 3D preview and update of the parts is a great challenge. In our implementation, the 3D part models are created with ACIS, a famous geometry engine. ACIS has a powerful ability of 3D modeling, it supports the entity, wireframe, surface and other geometric elements. Through the flexible handle of these elements, the high-precision geometric model can be created. From the view point of efficiency, ACIS uses the object oriented data structure and C++ is its development language, thereby, it has an efficient operating and modeling performance. More important, it is an original and lightweight modeling with only dozens of dlls, so it is very convenient for deployment, especially on the web.

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