DocumentCode :
1856816
Title :
Practical technique in conversion of engineering drawings to CAD form
Author :
Jin, Long ; Zhou, Zhaoying ; Xiong, Shenshu ; Chen, Yun ; Liu, Minqiang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Precision Instrum. & Mechonology, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Volume :
1
fYear :
1998
fDate :
18-21 May 1998
Firstpage :
8
Abstract :
From the commercial and the technical development standpoints, engineering drawings in electrical computer-aided-design format are more advantageous than those in the traditional paper-based format. With the large stocks of paper drawings in factories and institutes, the demand for conversion is urgent and strong. Currently, several commercial systems are available to convert paper drawings to CAD. However, due to the high complexity and some unpredictable deformation during the processing of drawings, there still exist some problems. Several key solutions to these problems, which are employed in a practical automatic CAD conversion system AVSED, are discussed in this paper. These include the extraction of characters from drawings using a novel text/graphics separation algorithm, complex nonlinear exponential AR (CNEAR) model based character recognition, rapid thinning algorithm and its implementation of hardware, adaptive node regulation algorithm and cross-node tracing algorithm to obtain accurate vectorization of cross lines and neural network based arrow recognition. With these techniques high speed and accurate rate of processing can be achieved in AVSED. The general architecture and algorithms of AVSED are also described. Finally, the AVSED processing results of an original raster drawing is given, and a conclusion is drawn based on the comparison of results by AVSED and a commercial system VPmaxNT
Keywords :
CAD; character recognition; engineering graphics; image scanners; mechanical engineering computing; neural nets; AVSED; CAD form; adaptive node regulation algorithm; automatic CAD conversion system; character recognition; complex nonlinear exponential AR model; cross-node tracing algorithm; engineering drawings; neural network based arrow recognition; rapid thinning algorithm; raster drawing; text/graphics separation algorithm; Character recognition; Communication industry; Design automation; Engineering drawings; Graphics; Instruments; Mechanical engineering; Neural network hardware; Neural networks; Production facilities;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1998. IMTC/98. Conference Proceedings. IEEE
Conference_Location :
St. Paul, MN
ISSN :
1091-5281
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4797-8
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/IMTC.1998.679631
Filename :
679631
Link To Document :
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