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StuckiSimon committed Aug 16, 2024
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E-commerce is a key use case for product renderings. Commonly, these applications rely on taking pictures of the product. Like traditional physical catalogues, this approach struggles with highly configurable products due to the amount of images required to cover all possible configurations. Computer graphics addresses this challenge through product configurators for virtual assembly and visualization. They alleviate the need for physical processes, such as photography, and are scalable to a large number of configurations. This can be implemented by creating 3D models of the components and assembling them in a virtual environment.

As the number of components grows and the product evolves, these production models need to be kept coordinated with the marketing models used for end user visualization. To circumvent this issue, leveraging existing production \gls{CAD} models, prevalent in mechanical engineering and product design, offers a significant advantage. These models contain geometric and material information, which eliminates the need for redundant 3D models for marketing purposes. Geometric information defines the shape of the product where material information in this context refers to the surface description of the shape. One real-world example of a company with production \gls{CAD} data is EAO. They manufacture highly customizable industrial pushbuttons and operator panels. Due to the nature of the product, the number of possible assemblies grows almost exponentially with the number of components.
As the number of components grows and the product evolves, the marketing models used for end user visualization need to be kept coordinated with changes to the product. To circumvent this issue, leveraging existing production \gls{CAD} models, prevalent in mechanical engineering and product design, offers a significant advantage. These models contain geometric and material information, which eliminates the need for redundant 3D models for marketing purposes. Geometric information defines the shape of the product, while material information refers to the surface description. One real-world example of a company with production \gls{CAD} data is EAO. They manufacture highly customizable industrial pushbuttons and operator panels. Due to the nature of the product, the number of possible assemblies grows almost exponentially with the number of components.

To illustrate the use case more universally, consider a product which is assembled of $n$ component types. Each component type ($i$) has $o_i$ different options. This gives the total number of possible configurations ($t$) as shown in \autoref{eq:assemblyConfigurations}.

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