ENVIRON–Visualization of CAD Models In a Virtual Reality Environment.pdfVIP

Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (2004) S. Coquillart, M. Göbel (Editors) ENVIRON - Visualization of CAD Models In a Virtual Reality Environment Eduardo T. L. Corseuil, Alberto B. Raposo, Romano J. M. da Silva, Marcio H. G. Pinto, Gustavo N. Wagner, Marcelo Gattass TeCGraf/PUC-Rio – Computer Graphics Group, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Abstract This paper presents ENVIRON (ENvironment for VIRtual Objects Navigation) , an application that was developed motivated by the necessity of using Virtual Reality in large industrial engineering models coming from CAD ( Computer Aided Design) tools. This work analyzes the main problems related to the production of a VR model, derived from the CAD model. Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.7: Virtual reality; J.6: Computer-aided design 1. Introduction problems regarding the visualization of the models. Among these problems, which are common both in academic and One of the main objectives of the engineering departments commercial solutions, we may cite: of large industries, such as automobile and oil gas, are the construction of integrated information systems to • Low performance for complex models. The control their proj ects. They look for computational systems achieved frame rates are unsatisfactory when models, that, besides accessing data bases with project information,