Database techniques for archival of solid models
David McWherter, Mitchell Peabody, Ali Shokoufandeh, William Clement Regli · 2001
This paper presents techniques for managing solid models in modern relational database management systems. Our goal is to enable support for traditional database operations (sorting, distance metrics, range queries, nearest neighbors, etc) on large databases of solid models. As part of this research, we have developed a number of novel storage and retrieval strategies that extend the state-of-the-art in database research as well as change the way in which solid modeling software developers and design and manufacturing enterprises view CAD-centric data management problems.