Solving spatial basic geometric constraint configurations with locus intersection

  • Authors:
  • Xiao-Shan Gao;Christoph M. Hoffmann;Wei-Qiang Yang

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Systems Science, AMSS, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China;Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana;Institute of Systems Science, AMSS, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Solid modeling and applications
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A basic idea of geometric constraint solving is to decompose the constraint problem into smaller ones according to some basic configurations. In this paper, we find all spatial basic configurations involving points, lines, and planes containing up to six geometric primitives in an automated way. Many of these basic configurations still resist effective analytical solutions. We propose the locus intersection method for geometric constraint solving, which is used to solve all these basic configurations.