A Symbolic Approach to the Fast Design of Industrial Piping Systems

870880

04/07/1987

Event
Computer Graphics Conference and Exposition
Authors Abstract
Content
This paper describes a new approach to the interactive design of industrial piping systems which is vastly faster and more responsive to a designer's actions. In the new approach, rather than attempting to model the piping system components as either polyhedral or quadric-surfaced solids, the piping components are represented symbolically in an isometric projection plane. The approach exploits the high degree of regularities inherent in piping system components and structures, and makes it possible to develop extremely fast algorithms for interactively designing a three-dimensional piping system, to subject it to transformations, to test it for interference, and to generate visible-line-only displays.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/870880
Pages
6
Citation
Zhu, Q., and Freeman, H., "A Symbolic Approach to the Fast Design of Industrial Piping Systems," SAE Technical Paper 870880, 1987, https://doi.org/10.4271/870880.
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Publisher
Published
Apr 7, 1987
Product Code
870880
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English