INTRODUCTION

In the process of mechanical engineering design and manufacturting, the automatic representation and construction of solid madels with computers is a vital step. Three approches are commonly used to create solid models;
(a) primitive modelling,
(b) traslation and rotational sweeping, and
(c) planar prjection reconstruction.

The first two metods have been applied in many commercial software packages. But in these cases it is nedded the solid model as thier input. But most of the input devices are 2 dimensional.To solve this problem solid models reconstruction algorithm from 2D projections is deviced. It is a procedure for recovering informations from a low dimension to high dimension. Although obtaining 2D projections from agiven 3D object is stright forward, the inverse operation becomes rather implicit and difficult.The difficulties of this approch arise from the loss of semantic information when a 3D object is represented with 2D projection.
In this project we have tried to implement the {Yan and Chen,1994} solid model reconstruction algorithm from orthographic views upto the 3D wire frame generation part  for rectilinear object only. previous page