This three-year $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support research at Stanford University to develop techniques for end-user programming of computer-aided design (CAD) systems. The researchers will create a domain-specific language to describe CAD models in a way that maintains design integrity through parameter changes. They will also develop algorithms to reason about CAD programs by transforming edits into queries leveraging symbolic and numerical solvers. Finally, the team will create novel end-user programming environments enabled by the CAD language and automated reasoning capabilities. The work is aimed at increasing the productivity of design professionals and reducing barriers for casual users to perform 3D modeling through reuse of existing CAD models.
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