Computer-Aided Design: Development of a Software Tool for Solving Loci Problems

In this work, we developed a software tool for the simplified, automated definition and viewing of loci in the plane, an essential task in the design, engineering and architectural fields. The process was started by identifying the most salient geometric loci in the engineering domain (i.e., tangent...

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Autores: Hernández Díaz, David, Hernández Abad, Francisco, Hernández Abad, Vicente, Villar Ribera, Ricardo, Julián, Fernando, Rojas Sola, José Ignacio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Jaén
Repositorio:RUJA. Repositorio Institucional de la Producción Científica de la Universidad de Jaén
OAI Identifier:oai:ruja.ujaen.es:10953/1332
Acceso en línea:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/15/1/10
https://hdl.handle.net/10953/1332
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:computer-aided design
computer-aided sketching
loci
geometric constraints
dimensional constraints
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Sumario:In this work, we developed a software tool for the simplified, automated definition and viewing of loci in the plane, an essential task in the design, engineering and architectural fields. The process was started by identifying the most salient geometric loci in the engineering domain (i.e., tangents). A geometric approach was followed to deal with curves from the relative positions of two circles or a circle and a point. The algorithms used can be easily implemented in commercially available CAD software, which testifies to the usefulness and timeliness of the proposed tool. The tool successfully solved all target cases and was implemented as a function with the commercial software Adobe Authorware v.7.0.2.