FilletRec: A Lightweight Graph Neural Network with Intrinsic Features for Automated Fillet Recognition

TL;DR

This paper introduces FilletRec, a lightweight graph neural network utilizing intrinsic geometric features for highly accurate and efficient automated fillet recognition in CAD models, supported by a new large-scale dataset.

Contribution

It presents a novel GNN model that leverages pose-invariant geometric features and a large dataset to improve fillet recognition accuracy and generalization in CAD models.

Findings

FilletRec outperforms existing methods in accuracy and generalization.

It uses only 0.2%-5.4% of the parameters of baseline models.

The framework integrates recognition and geometric simplification for automation.

Abstract

Automated recognition and simplification of fillet features in CAD models is critical for CAE analysis, yet it remains an open challenge. Traditional rule-based methods lack robustness, while existing deep learning models suffer from poor generalization and low accuracy on complex fillets due to their generic design and inadequate training data. To address these issues, this paper proposes an end-to-end, data-driven framework specifically for fillet features. We first construct and release a large-scale, diverse benchmark dataset for fillet recognition to address the inadequacy of existing data. Based on it, we propose FilletRec, a lightweight graph neural network. The core innovation of this network is its use of pose-invariant intrinsic geometric features, such as curvature, enabling it to learn more fundamental geometric patterns and thereby achieve high-precision recognition of complex geometric topologies. Experiments show that FilletRec surpasses state-of-the-art methods in both accuracy and generalization, while using only 0.2\%-5.4\% of the parameters of baseline models, demonstrating high model efficiency. Finally, the framework completes the automated workflow from recognition to simplification by integrating an effective geometric simplification algorithm.