Geometric constraint solving: The witness configuration method

  • Authors:
  • Dominique Michelucci;Sebti Foufou

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire Le2i, UMR CNRS 5158, Université de Bourgogne, BP 47870, 21078 Dijon Cedex, France;Laboratoire Le2i, UMR CNRS 5158, Université de Bourgogne, BP 47870, 21078 Dijon Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Geometric constraint solving is a key issue in CAD, CAM and PLM. The systems of geometric constraints are today studied and decomposed with graph-based methods, before their numerical resolution. However, graph-based methods can detect only the simplest (called structural) dependences between constraints; they cannot detect subtle dependences due to theorems. To overcome these limitations, this paper proposes a new method: the system is studied (with linear algebra tools) at a witness configuration, which is intuitively similar to the unknown one, and easy to compute.