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Exchange of Product Data between CAD systems and a Physics Simulation Program

Jouko Vuoskoski

cm Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Technology to be presented with due permission for public examination and criticism in Auditorium XXX, at Tampere University of Technology, Pori Unit, on the XXth of April 1996, at 12 o'clock noon.

• Contents
• Background
• Aims of the Thesis
• Detector design
  • GEANT, the physics simulation package
  • CAD systems
• Types of geometric models
  • Wireframe models
  • Surface models
  • Solid models
  • Decomposition models
    • Exhaustive enumeration
    • Adaptive subdivision
    • Cell decompositions
  • Constructive models
    • Half-space models
    • Constructive solid geometry
  • Boundary models
    • Boundary representation
  • Hybrid modellers
• The geometric modeller of GEANT
  • Volume definition
  • Basic shapes
  • Detector model creation
  • Particle tracking
  • Data structure
• Neutral file formats
  • IGES
  • VDAIS and VDAFS
  • DXF
  • SET
    • Basic components
    • Domains
  • STEP
    • Parts
    • Description Methods: EXPRESS
    • Implementation Methods
    • Integrated Resources
    • Application Protocols
    • Tools
• Problems with product model data transfer
  • Specifications
  • Interfaces
  • Nature of CAD systems
• General concepts
• Data transfer from GEANT to CAD systems
  • CADINT
  • GESTEP
  • CADGE
• Data transfer from CAD systems to GEANT
  • DDT
  • GEREP
• Author's contribution to the publications
• Conclusions
• References
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