Computer-Aided Design: Development of a Software Tool for Solving Loci Problems
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2022-12-21
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
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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.
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computer-aided design, computer-aided sketching, loci, geometric constraints, dimensional constraints
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Hernández-Díaz, D.; Hernández-Abad, F.; Hernández-Abad, V.; Villar-Ribera, R.; Julián, F.; Rojas-Sola, J.I. Computer-Aided Design: Development of a Software Tool for Solving Loci Problems. Symmetry 2023, 15, 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym15010010