The use of computers for processing three-dimensional (3D) .engineering drawings has been investigated in this paper. The' essential properties of a hierarchical data structure are pointed out and employed to provide a natural computerized .data structure for representing the geometry of the drawn part: The intrinsic flexibility of that structure makes it possible • to keep track of a full 3D description of the part under consideration.
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