B-Rep Distance Functions (BR-DF): How to Represent a B-Rep Model by Volumetric Distance Functions?

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Main Authors: Zhang, Fuyang, Jayaraman, Pradeep Kumar, Xu, Xiang, Furukawa, Yasutaka
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Published: 2025
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author Zhang, Fuyang
Jayaraman, Pradeep Kumar
Xu, Xiang
Furukawa, Yasutaka
author_facet Zhang, Fuyang
Jayaraman, Pradeep Kumar
Xu, Xiang
Furukawa, Yasutaka
contents This paper presents a novel geometric representation for CAD Boundary Representation (B-Rep) based on volumetric distance functions, dubbed B-Rep Distance Functions (BR-DF). BR-DF encodes the surface mesh geometry of a CAD model as signed distance function (SDF). B-Rep vertices, edges, faces and their topology information are encoded as per-face unsigned distance functions (UDFs). An extension of the Marching Cubes algorithm converts BR-DF directly into watertight CAD B-Rep model (strictly speaking a faceted B-Rep model). A surprising characteristic of BR-DF is that this conversion process never fails. Leveraging the volumetric nature of BR-DF, we propose a multi-branch latent diffusion with 3D U-Net backbone for jointly generating the SDF and per-face UDFs of a BR-DF model. Our approach achieves comparable CAD generation performance against SOTA methods while reaching the unprecedented 100% success rate in producing (faceted) B-Rep models.
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spellingShingle B-Rep Distance Functions (BR-DF): How to Represent a B-Rep Model by Volumetric Distance Functions?
Zhang, Fuyang
Jayaraman, Pradeep Kumar
Xu, Xiang
Furukawa, Yasutaka
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
This paper presents a novel geometric representation for CAD Boundary Representation (B-Rep) based on volumetric distance functions, dubbed B-Rep Distance Functions (BR-DF). BR-DF encodes the surface mesh geometry of a CAD model as signed distance function (SDF). B-Rep vertices, edges, faces and their topology information are encoded as per-face unsigned distance functions (UDFs). An extension of the Marching Cubes algorithm converts BR-DF directly into watertight CAD B-Rep model (strictly speaking a faceted B-Rep model). A surprising characteristic of BR-DF is that this conversion process never fails. Leveraging the volumetric nature of BR-DF, we propose a multi-branch latent diffusion with 3D U-Net backbone for jointly generating the SDF and per-face UDFs of a BR-DF model. Our approach achieves comparable CAD generation performance against SOTA methods while reaching the unprecedented 100% success rate in producing (faceted) B-Rep models.
title B-Rep Distance Functions (BR-DF): How to Represent a B-Rep Model by Volumetric Distance Functions?
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14870