BrepGen: A B-rep Generative Diffusion Model with Structured Latent Geometry

TL;DR

BrepGen introduces a hierarchical, diffusion-based model that directly generates complex CAD B-rep models, including free-form and doubly-curved surfaces, surpassing previous methods in accuracy and complexity.

Contribution

It presents a novel structured latent geometry representation and Transformer-based diffusion process for direct B-rep CAD model generation, enabling more complex and detailed outputs.

Findings

Outperforms existing B-rep generation methods on benchmarks.

Successfully generates complex free-form and doubly-curved surfaces.

Enables CAD autocomplete and design interpolation applications.

Abstract

This paper presents BrepGen, a diffusion-based generative approach that directly outputs a Boundary representation (B-rep) Computer-Aided Design (CAD) model. BrepGen represents a B-rep model as a novel structured latent geometry in a hierarchical tree. With the root node representing a whole CAD solid, each element of a B-rep model (i.e., a face, an edge, or a vertex) progressively turns into a child-node from top to bottom. B-rep geometry information goes into the nodes as the global bounding box of each primitive along with a latent code describing the local geometric shape. The B-rep topology information is implicitly represented by node duplication. When two faces share an edge, the edge curve will appear twice in the tree, and a T-junction vertex with three incident edges appears six times in the tree with identical node features. Starting from the root and progressing to the leaf, BrepGen employs Transformer-based diffusion models to sequentially denoise node features while duplicated nodes are detected and merged, recovering the B-Rep topology information. Extensive experiments show that BrepGen advances the task of CAD B-rep generation, surpassing existing methods on various benchmarks. Results on our newly collected furniture dataset further showcase its exceptional capability in generating complicated geometry. While previous methods were limited to generating simple prismatic shapes, BrepGen incorporates free-form and doubly-curved surfaces for the first time. Additional applications of BrepGen include CAD autocomplete and design interpolation. The code, pretrained models, and dataset are available at https://github.com/samxuxiang/BrepGen.