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From: rustcat@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Vallury Prabhakar)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: need info on AI in CAD
Message-ID: <3188@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 30 Mar 88 10:15:45 GMT
References: <332@infko.UUCP>
Reply-To: rustcat@csli.UUCP (Vallury Prabhakar)
Organization: Yonder, the Apocalyptic Horizons
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Keywords: AI CAD

In article <332@infko.UUCP> uro@infko.UUCP (Uwe und Roland) writes:

# In doing research on intelligent CAD-systems, I'm looking
# for literature, technical/research reports and conference 
# proceedings on following topics:
# 
# - Architecture of intelligent CAD-systems
# - Design and Implementation of AI-models which enable
# the user to include structural knowledge (i.e. design knowledge),
# exceeding topological knowledge while describing his objects to the
# CAD-system. I'm looking for a kind of shell, surrounding the realization
# of the topological/geometrical model, but beeing as independent 
# as possible from the latter one.

I don't know if it's a bit late, but could you kindly forward pertinent
responses to the above portions of your original query to me?  

On a related note, I've been looking for literature/publications relevant
to topics such as pattern recognition in a CAD "drawing", such as determining
line connectivies, and figuring out whether a series of lines form a closed
path, etc.  I would appreciate any information/pointers on this.

If this is the wrong newsgroup for such a question, I apologize.  I've 
tried comp.graphics but wasn't able to get much from there.  

Enjoy,

						-- Vallury Prabhakar
						   rustcat@cnc-sun.stanford.edu

PS: Please reply directly to my e-mail address.  I don't come here very often.