Converting 3D Furniture Models to Fabricatable Parts and Connectors

Manfred Lau; Akira Ohgawara; Jun Mitani; Takeo Igarashi

doi:10.1145/2010324.1964980

Converting 3D Furniture Models to Fabricatable Parts and Connectors

Manfred Lau^*
, Akira Ohgawara
, Jun Mitani
, Takeo Igarashi

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Although there is an abundance of 3D models available, most of them exist only in virtual simulation and are not immediately usable as physical objects in the real world. We solve the problem of taking as input a 3D model of a man-made object, and automatically generating the parts and connectors needed to build the corresponding physical object. We focus on furniture models, and we define formal grammars for IKEA cabinets and tables. We perform lexical analysis to identify the primitive parts of the 3D model. Structural analysis then gives structural information to these parts, and generates the connectors (i.e. nails, screws) needed to attach the parts together. We demonstrate our approach with arbitrary 3D models of cabinets and tables available online. © 2011, ACM. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Article number	85
Journal	ACM Transactions on Graphics
Volume	30
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2010324.1964980
Publication status	Published - Jul 2011
Externally published	Yes

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The publication is also published in Proceedings - ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 papers.

Research Keywords

3D modeling
assembly instructions
exploded view illustrations
fabrication
grammar
procedural modeling

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