View identification is the basal process for solid reconstruction from engineering drawings. A new method is presented to label various views from a section-involved drawing and identify geometric planes through the object at which the sections are to be located. In the approach, a graph representation is developed for describing multiple relationships among various views in the 2D drawing space, and a reasoning technique based on evidence theory is implemented to validate view relations that are used to fold views and sections in the 3D object space. This is the first automated approach which can handle multiple sections in diverse arrangements, especially accommodating the aligned section for the first time. Experimental results are given to show that the proposed solution makes a breakthrough in the field and builds a promising basis for further expansibility, although it is not a complete one.

Solid reconstruction from engineering drawings is one of the efficient technologies to product solid models. The B-rep oriented approach provides a practical way for reconstructing a wide range of objects. However, its major limitation is the computational complexity involved in the search for all valid faces from the intermediate wire-frame, especially for objects with complicated face topologies. In previous work, we presented a hint-based algorithm to recognize quadric surfaces from orthographic views and generate a hybrid wire-frame as the intermediate model of our B-rep oriented method. As a key stage in the process of solid reconstructing, we propose an algorithm to convert the hybrid wire-frame to the final B-rep model by extracting all the rest faces of planes based on graph theory. The entities lying on the same planar surface are first collected in a plane graph. After all the cycles are traced in a simplified edge-adjacency matrix of the graph, the face loops of the plane are formed by testing loop containment and assigning loop directions. Finally, the B-rep model is constructed by sewing all the plane faces based on the Möbius rule. The method can efficiently construct 2-manifold objects with a variety of face topologies, which is illustrated by results of implementation.