Abstract
B-Rep (Boundary Representation) CAD model is being widely used in representation of industrial product, so its feature recognition has acquired widespread research interests in computer vision and 3D model retrieval fields. We present one approach of feature recognition based on the idea of human visual mechanism. Surfaces as the visual shape features, and solids as well as shells as the topological relations, were extracted from the neutral STEP (Standard for Exchange of Product Model Data) files of B-Rep model. Towards three surface types of NURBS, analytical and poly loop, the properties of surface boundary and region are established based on curvature and other geometric index. So B-Rep CAD model is characterized as the hierarchical tree with solid layer, shell layer and surface layer for object recognition and retrieval, and the corresponding experiments verified the effectiveness of the method of shape feature recognition.
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