BrepGPT: Autoregressive B-rep Generation with Voronoi Half-Patch
Boundary representation (B-rep) is the de facto standard for CAD model representation in modern industrial design. The intricate coupling between geometric and topological elements in B-rep structures has forced existing generative methods to rely on cascaded multi-stage networks, resulting in error accumulation and computational inefficiency. We present BrepGPT, a single-stage autoregressive framework for B-rep generation. Our key innovation lies in the Voronoi Half-Patch (VHP) representation, which decomposes B-reps into unified local units by assigning geometry to nearest half-edges and sampling their next pointers. Unlike hierarchical representations that require multiple distinct encodings for different structural levels, our VHP representation facilitates unifying geometric attributes and topological relations in a single, coherent format. We further leverage dual VQ-VAEs to encode both vertex topology and Voronoi Half-Patches into vertex-based tokens, achieving a more compact sequential encoding. A decoder-only Transformer is then trained to autoregressively predict these tokens, which are subsequently mapped to vertex-based features and decoded into complete B-rep models. Experiments demonstrate that BrepGPT achieves state-of-the-art performance in unconditional B-rep generation. The framework also exhibits versatility in various applications, including conditional generation from category labels, point clouds, text descriptions, and images, as well as B-rep autocompletion and interpolation.
Authors
- Dong‐Ming Yan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2209-2404)
- Weize Quan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0892-581X)
- Wenhao Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1654-3462)
- Peter Wonka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0627-9746)
- Biao Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5685-6092)
- Pu Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1060-689X)
Institutions
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Shandong Institute of Automation (CN)
- Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (CN)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (SA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- ACM Transactions on Graphics
- Published
- 2025-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3763323
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.33