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FlatFitFab: interactive modeling with planar sections

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Nobuyuki Umetani,

Karan SinghAuthors Info & Claims

UIST '14: Proceedings of the 27th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2642918.2647388

Published: 05 October 2014 Publication History

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We present a comprehensive system to author planar section structures, common in art and engineering. A study on how planar section assemblies are imagined and drawn guide our design principles: planar sections are best drawn in-situ, with little foreshortening, orthogonal to intersecting planar sections, exhibiting regularities between planes and contours. We capture these principles with a novel drawing workflow where a single fluid user stroke specifies a 3D plane and its contour in relation to existing planar sections. Regularity is supported by defining a vocabulary of procedural operations for intersecting planar sections. We exploit planar structure properties to provide real-time visual feedback on physically simulated stresses, and geometric verification that the structure is stable, connected and can be assembled. This feedback is validated by real-world fabrication and testing. As evaluation, we report on over 50 subjects who all used our system with minimal instruction to create unique models.

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DOI:10.1145/2642918

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