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International Symposium on Visual Computing

ISVC 2013: Advances in Visual Computing pp 288–297Cite as

Simultaneous Bidirectional Geometric Model Synchronization between CAD and VR Applications

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Abstract

Most of the research in the field of CAD – VR integration targets the use of VR as a post-processing tool and relatively fewer attempts are aiming at returning feedback from VR back to CAD. In this paper we propose a method allowing the modification of CAD models in a virtual environment with (bidirectional) synchronization of the model description between the CAD and VR applications as the changes are made. A sample implementation of the method is also described and some examples of specific test cases used to confirm the applicability of the method are given.

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  1. Virtual Reality Lab, Technical University Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Dimo Chotrov & Stoyan Maleshkov

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  1. University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Baoxin Li

  6. Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Fatih Porikli

  7. University of California, Riverside, CA, USA

    Victor Zordan

  8. AT&T Research Labs, Florham Park, NJ, USA

    James Klosowski

  9. ZIRST, Saint-Ismier Cedex, France

    Sabine Coquillart

  10. Qualcomm Research, San Diego, CA, USA

    Xun Luo

  11. Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford,, Oxford, UK

    Min Chen

  12. IBM, Hawthorne, NY, USA

    David Gotz

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Chotrov, D., Maleshkov, S. (2013). Simultaneous Bidirectional Geometric Model Synchronization between CAD and VR Applications. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8034. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41939-3_28

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