Incremental Line Labelling for Sketch Input of Solid Models

Abstract

Designers need to transfer three-dimensional objects from their minds via a two-dimensional interface into a solid modelling system. We propose a system where objects are sketched interactively in two-dimensions and incrementally line-labelled as the drawing progresses, as the preliminary stage in constructing a solid model. Once the sketch is complete, the line-labels are coupled with various inferred constraints to enable us to generate a solid model. In this paper we describe and evaluate a modification to existing line labelling methods to allow them to work incrementally. In this way, the labelling and region information can be built up as the user sketches, rather than all at once at the end of the sketching process, which reduces the delay before the final solid model is built.