Sketch Support System for Design

Abstract

In the process of embodying the external form of a product, sketch is used as the most efficient tool. Sketches are classified into thumbnail sketches, idea sketches, rough sketches, and rendering sketches from the degree of embodied idea. In this paper, a system to support deciding a product-form in the rough sketching process is proposed, and the algorithms which automatically extract or generate desired sketch-lines are described in order to support drawing sketch-lines.