Rapid Assembly Design for Solid Furniture Modeling

Rapidly and efficiently designing 3D solid furniture models, based on reusing existing models, are very important to refine the processing and reduce the producing cycle. According to a selected model structure, with our novel overall size driven assembly parts, in this paper, we propose a modeling by example approach to constructing models in 3D CAD. This approach mainly has two merits: (1) It can simply and rapidly construct new models using the existing models, (2) It can automatically reconstruct parameterized models and conveniently get a series of similar structure new models only by adjusting a few parameters. The results of experiments in solid furniture design application show that our approach can greatly improve the efficiency of modeling in 3D CAD.