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Main Authors: Wei, Zheng, Wei, Xiaodong
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14318
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author Wei, Zheng
Wei, Xiaodong
author_facet Wei, Zheng
Wei, Xiaodong
contents In engineering design, one of the most daunting problems in the design-through-analysis workflow is to deal with trimmed NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines), which often involve topological/geometric issues and lead to inevitable gaps and overlaps in the model. Given the dominance of the trimming technology in CAD systems, reconstructing such a model as a watertight representation is highly desired. While remarkable progress has been made in recent years, especially with the advancement of isogeometric analysis (IGA), there still lack a fully automatic and scalable tool to achieve this reconstruction goal. To address this issue, we present a semi-automatic and scalable reparameterization pipeline based on a scalable and feature-aligned meshing tool, QuadriFlow [1]. On top of it, we provide support for open surfaces to deal with engineering shell structures, and perform sophisticated patch simplification to remove undesired tiny/slender patches. As a result, we obtain a watertight spline surface (multi-patch NURBS or unstructured splines) with a simple quadrilateral layout. Through several challenging models from industry applications, we demonstrate the efficacy and efficiency of the proposed pipeline as well as its integration with IGA. Our source code is publicly available on GitHub [2].
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spellingShingle Scalable Field-Aligned Reparameterization for Trimmed NURBS
Wei, Zheng
Wei, Xiaodong
Computational Geometry
In engineering design, one of the most daunting problems in the design-through-analysis workflow is to deal with trimmed NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines), which often involve topological/geometric issues and lead to inevitable gaps and overlaps in the model. Given the dominance of the trimming technology in CAD systems, reconstructing such a model as a watertight representation is highly desired. While remarkable progress has been made in recent years, especially with the advancement of isogeometric analysis (IGA), there still lack a fully automatic and scalable tool to achieve this reconstruction goal. To address this issue, we present a semi-automatic and scalable reparameterization pipeline based on a scalable and feature-aligned meshing tool, QuadriFlow [1]. On top of it, we provide support for open surfaces to deal with engineering shell structures, and perform sophisticated patch simplification to remove undesired tiny/slender patches. As a result, we obtain a watertight spline surface (multi-patch NURBS or unstructured splines) with a simple quadrilateral layout. Through several challenging models from industry applications, we demonstrate the efficacy and efficiency of the proposed pipeline as well as its integration with IGA. Our source code is publicly available on GitHub [2].
title Scalable Field-Aligned Reparameterization for Trimmed NURBS
topic Computational Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14318