MODEL DRIVEN 3D GEOMETRIC MODELING SYSTEM

• US 20110057929A1
• Filed: 03/03/2008
• Published: 03/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Li, Chengjun, Chen, Henry, Plocher, tom, Beaulieu, Conrad Bruce
• Application Number:
  US12/920,434
• Publication Number:
  US 20110057929A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/419
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 17/00 Three dimensional [3D] modelling, e.g. data description of 3D objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0006 using a design-rule based approach
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/75 involving models

Abstract

A method and system of generating a 3D geometric object model for a domain. The method includes: extracting basic geometric elements from an input source; converting the basic geometric elements into domain elements according to a domain model, wherein the domain elements preserve semantic information of their attributes and relationships defined by the domain model; and constructing a 3D geometric model, including 3D geometric objects, from the domain elements by geometric operators according to the domain model, wherein the 3D geometric objects maintain the semantic information of the domain elements, and the semantic information is allowed to be defined in a level of the objects.

Claims

1. A method of generating a 3D geometric object model for a domain, comprising:

extracting basic geometric elements from an input source;

converting the basic geometric elements into domain elements according to a domain model, wherein the domain elements preserve their semantic information on attributes and relationships defined by the domain model; and

constructing a 3D geometric model, including 3D geometric objects, from the domain elements by geometric operators according to the domain model,

wherein the 3D geometric objects maintain the semantic information of the domain elements, and the semantic information is allowed to be refined in a level of the objects.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

loading the domain model of the domain.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

outputting the 3D geometric model with the semantic information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the domain model is defined based on a geometric element library and a geometric operator library.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

refining at least one of the extracted basic geometric elements.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

refining at least one of the extracted basic geometric elements.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

refining at least one of the 3D geometric objects of the constructed 3D geometric model, during which additional semantic information is allowed to be added thereto.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the attributes of the domain elements include classification, geometric, and material characteristics thereof, the geometric characteristics of the domain elements indicate position and shape thereof.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the relationships of the domain elements include spatial relationships thereof.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the relationships of the domain elements include hierarchical relationships thereof.

11. A system for generating a 3D geometric model of a domain, comprising:

a geometric element extractor to extract basic geometric elements from an input source;

a domain element extractor to convert the basic geometric elements into domain elements according to a domain model of the domain, wherein the domain elements preserve semantic information of their attributes and relationships defined in the domain model; and

a 3D geometric object constructor to construct a 3D geometric model, including 3D geometric objects, from the domain elements by basic geometric operators according to the domain model, wherein the semantic information is allowed to be refined on an object level.

12. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

a geometric element library and a geometric operator library, from which the domain model is defined; and

a domain model loader to load the domain model.

13. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

a common geometric model library to define common 3D models to be shared in the domain.

14. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

an output device to export the constructed 3D geometric model with the semantic information.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the attributes of the domain elements include classification, geometric, and material characteristics thereof.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the relationships of the domain elements include spatial and hierarchical relationships thereof

17. A computer-readable medium including instructions that, performed by a computer in a system, cause the computer to:

load a domain model for the domain;

read an input source;

extract basic geometric elements from the input source;

convert the basic geometric elements into domain elements according to the loaded domain model, wherein the domain elements preserve semantic information on geometric attributes and relationships thereof; and

construct a 3D geometric model from the domain elements, according to the loaded domain model, by geometric operators included in a geometric operator library, wherein the 3D geometric model includes 3D geometric objects with the semantic information.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 17, further comprising instructions that cause the computer to:

output the 3D geometric model with the semantic information.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the attributes of the domain elements include classification, geometric, and material characteristics thereof

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the relationships of the domain elements include spatial and hierarchical relationships thereof.