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One of the main objectives of the engineering departments of large industries is the construction of integrated information systems to control their projects, offering resources for the 3D visualization of their models with enough realism to be used for virtual prototyping, design review, change management systems, and training, among other activities. This work analyzes the main problems related to the production of Virtual Reality (VR) models derived from CAD (Computer-Aided Design) models, which allows the user to interact with them in real-time and have an immersive sensation. The paper presents ENVIRON (ENvironment for VIRtual Objects Navigation), an application that was developed motivated by the necessity of using VR in large industrial engineering models coming from CAD tools.

CAD models of industrial installations usually have hundreds of millions of triangles. For this reason they cannot be interactively rendered in the current generation of computer hardware. There are many different approaches to deal with this problem, including the Far Voxels algorithm, which uses a hierarchical level-of-detail structure. In this structure, voxels are used to create a coarse representation of the model when required. This strategy yields interactive rates for large data sets because it deals well with levels of detail, culling, occlusion and out-of-core model storage. The Far Voxels algorithm, however, has a severe alias problem when it is used to represent small or thin objects, which is especially visible during transitions between different levels of detail. This paper presents a new version of the Far Voxels algorithm that improves visual quality during model navigation.

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