Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kazuhiko Narita

Kazuo Itoh

Hiroshi Sekine

Hiroshi Ono

Takaoki Namba

Ayumi Nakajima

Masanori Tokoi

Shuichi Kitazawa

Kazuharu Taga

Fumio Kikuchi

Naoto Matsunaga

A method of and an apparatus for producing solid models, in which input data consisting of the coordinates of terminal points and a formula of a curved line of each arc of a given wire frame model is read. The coordinates of a node and a set of arcs connected thereto are determined based on the input coordinates of the terminal points. A set of arcs looping around an indivisible surface of the wire frame model are specified as the outermost line surrounding the whole wire frame model. A region of the wire frame model surrounded by the outermost line or division lines is divided into two new partial wire frame models by a new division line starting from a node located on the outermost line or the division lines, traversing the region without making a loop, passing along each of the arcs included in the region only once, and reaching another node located on the outermost line or the division lines. The division is repeated until there remains no arc which has not yet been passed through in any of the partial wire frame models. A a set of arcs looping around each of the further-indivisible partial wire frame models is defined as surface loop.

Method of and system for producing solid models

Creating a solid (i.e. three dimensional) model with a CAD system, from a two dimensional representation, includes dividing the two dimensional representation into a plurality of shape portions, inputting them into the CAD system, rendering them solid, and then connecting them into the desired solid model. Among the shape portions are those whose cross-sections are substantially uniform. In inputting, the operator of the CAD system need only input line segments of the shape portions in approximately the correct orientation.

Method of rendering a two dimensional drawing into a three dimensional

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