Abstract
Supporting group Undo/Redo with high performance in a 3D designing environment still remains a challenge. The question is how to recover the document state as if an operation is never executed. In this paper, we are going to propose an inverse-operation based group Undo/Redo solution for feature-based 3D collaborative CAD systems. It allows a 3D part to be manipulated locally. We developed an ontology in the CAD domain so as to describe common elements in typical feature-based CAD systems. By classifying features according to how they affect a volume, feature modeling operations are categorized into four groups. We are able to create inverse operations for operations belonging to the same category. The proposed methods are tested in a prototype system with case study.
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The work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC Grant Nos. 61472289 and 61502353) and Youth Innovation Corps Fund of Humanities and Social Sciences, Wuhan University. The authors would like to thank all the reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions.
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Cheng, Y., He, F., Lv, X., Cai, W. (2018). A Novel Inverse-Operation Based Group Undo/Redo Algorithm for Feature-Based 3D Collaborative CAD Systems. In: Zu, Q., Hu, B. (eds) Human Centered Computing. HCC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10745. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74521-3_13
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