I'm trying actually to improve my method of recognizing from STEP file of CAD models, manufacturing features using rule-based and entity growing approaches. Anyone interested to chare ideas?
Jaider: You mean automatic manufacturing features extraction using rule-based? Not quite. I have employed rule-based techniques to extract parameters and geometric attributes from CAD models,
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what do you mean "by analyzing geometric and topological data after its extraction"? more specific "after its extraction". Actually you extract the feature by implementing rule-based method.