Feature-preserving quadrilateral mesh Boolean operation with cross-field guided layout blending

Abstract

Compared to triangular meshes, high-quality quadrilateral meshes offer significant advantages in the field of simulation. However, generating high-quality quadrilateral meshes has always been a challenging task. By synthesizing high-quality quadrilateral meshes based on existing ones through Boolean operations such as mesh intersection, union, and difference, the automation level of quadrilateral mesh modeling can be improved. This significantly reduces modeling time. We propose a feature-preserving quadrilateral mesh Boolean operation method that can generate high-quality all-quadrilateral meshes through Boolean operations while preserving the geometric features and shape of the original mesh. Our method, guided by cross-field techniques, aligns mesh faces with geometric features of the model and maximally preserves the original mesh's geometric shape and layout. Compared to traditional quadrilateral mesh generation methods, our approach demonstrates higher efficiency, offering a substantial improvement to the pipeline of mesh-based modeling tools.