CAD Tools and Algorithms for Product Design

Design, Assembly and Integration: Product Templates: A Parametric Approach to Mass Customization.- A New Aesthetic Design Workflow - Results from the European Project FIORES.- Feature-Based Assembly for Aeronautics Design.- A Modeller for Preliminary Design.- Geometric Reasoning Tools for Assembly-Oriented CAD.- Enhanced multiple-view feature modelling. Interfaces and User Interaction: Navigation in Highly Polygon-Populated Ship Environments Using the Visibility Octree.- An Algorithm for Fast 3D Picking and Snapping Using a 3D Input Device and 3D Cursor.- Virtual Prototyping - The Integration of Design and Virtual Reality.- The Role of Haptic Devices for an Efficient Integration of Design, Simulation and Analysis. Meshing and Surface Analysis: A Simple Algorithm for 2D-Mesh Generation by Domain Composition.- Generation of Solid Multiresolution Models.- Surface Reconstruction Based on a Descriptive Approach.- Differential Properties at Singular Points of Parametric Surfaces.- Selective Crypting with Haar-Wavelets. Constraints and Knowledge: Variational Design in Electrical Engineering - An Extension of Parametric Modelling.- A Geometric Relaxation Solver for Constraint-Based Models.- Steps toward a Relational 3D System. Index.