Intelligent capture environment for mechanical engineering drawing

Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-46).I designed and implemented an intelligent environment for recognizing simple mechanical engineering sketches. This involves the analysis of complex mechanical engineering parts and their components and consists of creating a hierarchical recognition system capable of parsing these parts with simpler geometric primitives. The system seeks to provide an intuitive pencil-and-paper-like interface for sketch recognition by allowing incremental recognition of what a user draws on the system. The system's knowledge is arranged in simple Recognizer modules that have very specialized information on a particular aspect of recognizing a part.by Manoj D. Muzumdar.M.Eng