CADFit: New Method for Converting Meshes to Editable CAD Programs
Researchers have developed CADFit, a hybrid optimization framework that converts geometric meshes into complex, editable CAD construction sequences with high accuracy. The method uses geometric feedback to incrementally fit parametric operations like extrusions, revolutions, fillets, and chamfers. This advancement addresses a key challenge in design and manufacturing by enabling reverse engineering of CAD models from images and meshes.
CADFit is a new framework for CAD reconstruction that recovers parametric CAD construction sequences from meshes and point clouds by formulating the problem as an optimization task over structured CAD programs. Unlike existing methods that produce difficult-to-edit formats like meshes or Breps, CADFit generates editable CAD sequences with support for complex operations. The approach uses Intersection-over-Union (IoU) as a driving metric and validates operations through geometric feedback. Experiments across multiple CAD benchmarks demonstrate that CADFit outperforms state-of-the-art methods in volumetric accuracy and significantly reduces invalid CAD programs, particularly for complex designs. The researchers also developed a multimodal pipeline enabling end-to-end reconstruction from images by combining image-based geometry reconstruction with CADFit. The code has been made publicly available, supporting future research in learning-based CAD reverse engineering.
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The study does not discuss computational cost or runtime performance compared to baseline methods, nor does it address limitations in handling certain geometric features or material properties. The paper also does not specify the size or diversity of the benchmark datasets used for evaluation.
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- arXiv cs.LGCenter
CADFit: Precise Mesh-to-CAD Program Generation with Hybrid Optimization
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