A GUI for Streamlining the Assisted Design for Vehicles

Computer-Aided Design has been broadly used as an essential tool for engineers, architects, and designers, helping the user to model 2D or 3D objects, enabling the development, modification, and optimization of final products. We present a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to extract silhouettes of an object from three images. After extraction, they are stored in an ordered array, in full or optimized versions, with a certain compression level. They are then extruded in each direction to build up the corresponding 3D object by intersection, which is stored in a mesh file; to be used as input for other purposes. The GUI is coded in Python with a user-friendly interface that calls FreeCAD for extrusion. Since the GUI was originally designed to generate objects for the study of fluid-structure interaction, our tested cases are vehicles. However, its potential use in other areas is discussed.