ABSORBING COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN GEOMETRIES INTO THE GEANT SIMULATION PROGRAM
Saul Youssef, P. Dragovitsch, J. Womersley · International Journal of Modern Physics C · 1994
The problem of absorbing CAD system defined objects into detector simulation programs like GEANT is a well known unsolved problem in HEP computing. The nature of the problem and potential approaches to a solution are discussed. A solution to one aspect of CAD to GEANT translation is presented where CAD defined objects are represented as a tree of boxes which is then absorbed into GEANT geometries. Space and time benchmarks are discussed.