Moving from these considerations, this work is meant to discuss a methodology to perform a quasi-automatic ‘‘translation’’ starting from a 2D scanned image of hand-drawn orthographic views.
Though this work and the ones mentioned above share the same goal (3D reconstruction from planar views),
the starting point is completely different, since it consists of raster data from inherently inexact drawings like the ones, mentioned at the beginning of this section, coming from the initial design phases.
Moreover, as detailed in the methodology description,
the presented approach is applicable regardless of the typologies of geometries represented in the starting drawings,
and is particularly well suited for free form geometries like the ones commonly found in esthetic industrial design.