HoLa: B-Rep Generation using a Holistic Latent Representation
Journal:
arXiv
Published Date:
Apr 19, 2025
Abstract
We introduce a novel representation for learning and generating
Computer-Aided Design (CAD) models in the form of $\textit{boundary
representations}$ (B-Reps). Our representation unifies the continuous geometric
properties of B-Rep primitives in different orders (e.g., surfaces and curves)
and their discrete topological relations in a $\textit{holistic latent}$ (HoLa)
space. This is based on the simple observation that the topological connection
between two surfaces is intrinsically tied to the geometry of their
intersecting curve. Such a prior allows us to reformulate topology learning in
B-Reps as a geometric reconstruction problem in Euclidean space. Specifically,
we eliminate the presence of curves, vertices, and all the topological
connections in the latent space by learning to distinguish and derive curve
geometries from a pair of surface primitives via a neural intersection network.
To this end, our holistic latent space is only defined on surfaces but encodes
a full B-Rep model, including the geometry of surfaces, curves, vertices, and
their topological relations. Our compact and holistic latent space facilitates
the design of a first diffusion-based generator to take on a large variety of
inputs including point clouds, single/multi-view images, 2D sketches, and text
prompts. Our method significantly reduces ambiguities, redundancies, and
incoherences among the generated B-Rep primitives, as well as training
complexities inherent in prior multi-step B-Rep learning pipelines, while
achieving greatly improved validity rate over current state of the art: 82% vs.
$\approx$50%.
