Resumen
The article focuses on computer-aided design (CAD) models of buildings. Architects and technical illustrators often use techniques like cutaways, transparency, and exploded views to reduce or eliminate occlusion and expose the overall structures of architectural environments. An interactive system called ArchSplit that provides automated support for generating exploded views of any architectural environment has been developed. Once the system finds the ceilings, it automatically sections the environment into stories, rendering each one separately in exploded form. The first geometric analysis determines where to split the architectural model into its stories by analyzing the stream of polygons issued by the original application. The most natural segmentation of any architectural model is into stories. After the system's geometric analysis stage determines where to split the environment into stories, its rendering stage modifies each frame of the original application to produce an interactive exploded view.