[HN Gopher] Automating Complex 3D Modeling
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       Automating Complex 3D Modeling
        
       Author : sizzle
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2020-05-01 19:31 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | chaosbutters314 wrote:
       | this isn't first of its kind, most/all cfd/fea packages come with
       | a meshing tool. And most of them are already "one-click"
       | solutions for a halfway decent mesh even on complex topologies
       | with some even doing error handling for the user.
        
       | wtallis wrote:
       | It looks to me like this is not automated 3D modeling. Instead
       | it's an improved algorithm for reducing an existing 3D model to a
       | mesh suitable for eg. finite element method simulations.
        
         | tonylemesmer wrote:
         | I agree. A process that typically requires manual intervention
         | and tweaking of the source CAD model to arrive at something
         | ready for simulation. As a design engineer maybe I'm not out of
         | a job just yet.
        
       | twelvechairs wrote:
       | More clealy: "the first provably correct algorithm for conforming
       | Voronoi meshing for non-convex and possibly non-manifold domains
       | with guarantees on the quality of both surface and volume
       | elements"
       | 
       | https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08767
        
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