Simple 3D CAD Design Tool: https://github.com/ryosuzuki/cad-app

Ryo Suzuki ryo.suzuki@colorado.edu

See demo-sphere.gif and demo-armadillo.gif for the quick demo.

$ git clone --recursive git@github.com:ryosuzuki/cad-app.git
$ cd cad-app

For Linux (Ubuntu) users, you should first install dependencies. (Tested with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)

$ sudo apt-get install cmake xorg-dev libglu1-mesa-dev

Then, build with CMake

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make

Run the application

$ ./cad-app

Stop the application with ESC key or Ctrl-C in the terminal.

Clicking the Load button, the file manager shows up. You can choose your own OBJ file from your local computer. There are some sample OBJ files that I tested in the data directory (data/sphere.obj, data/bunny.obj, and data/armadillo.obj). As a default, the screen shows data/sphere.obj.

By dragging the mouse, you can control the camera. By scrolling, you can zoom in and out. You can also change the camera position with arrow keys (up, down, left, right).

After loading the OBJ file, you can change the wireframe by clicking the wireframe check button.

First you click the Add Constraints toggle switch. While Add Constraints button is on, you can select the face by clicking the mesh. The program highlights the constraint vertices as green color. You can still control the camera by dragging the background.

After adding constraints, now you can deform the mesh. Click the Deform button, then click the mouse on the mesh surface and drag the mouse. Now, you can see the mesh is deforming. You can also control the camera by dragging the background.

Note that the deformation algorithm works in real-time for the simple mesh such as sphere.obj, but the computation time will be longer and not be real-time for the dense mesh such as armadillo.obj (43K vertices and 86K faces) and bunny.obj (2K vertices and 5K faces). It is one of the limitations, but can be improved.

The deformation algorithm is basically based on this paper.

"As-rigid-as-possible surface modeling.", Olga Sorkine and Marc Alexa., Symposium on Geometry processing. Vol. 4. 2007. https://www.igl.ethz.ch/projects/ARAP/arap_web.pdf

The main goal of the algorithm is to solve the Lp' = b of the equation 9, where L is Laplacian matrix, p is deformed vertex positions, and b is a constraint vector. First, when the OBJ file is loaded, src/mesh.cpp calculates Laplacian matrix with the symmetric cotangent weights. Then, the program constructs b by letting the user add constraint vertices. The basic approach is to minimize the local rigidity energy described in the equation 7, so we iteratively compute the gradient of the energy function E(S') in src/deform.cpp. For the fast calculation to solve the linear equation Lp' = b, I used the Cholesky factorization by leveraging the sparse LU decomposition provided by the Eigen matrix library.

src/viewer.cpp provides the basic 3D viewer and event callback. I used GLFW for the OpenGL utility library and nanogui for the basic UI components such as buttons and check-boxes (GLFW is already included in the nanogui library).
src/control.cpp enables to rotate and zoom based on model, view, and projection matrix. src/shader.cpp and shader_mesh.vert/geom/frag are the shader files. src/ray.cpp is for the ray tracing, which enables to select the vertex and face by converting from the 2D mouse position to the 3D world. For the fast ray tracing, I used the Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) algorithm introduced in this paper.

"Ray tracing deformable scenes using dynamic bounding volume hierarchies.", Ingo Wald, Solomon Boulos, and Peter Shirley. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 26.1 (2007): 6. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b992/1ef56755537cc37e90b10da50648bbdee5f1.pdf