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Material Prediction For Design Automation Using Graph Representation Learning
Presentation of this project at the 2022 IDETC-CIE Conference (Design Automation Track).
Abstract
Successful material selection is critical in designing and manufacturing products for design automation. Designers leverage their knowledge and experience to create high-quality designs by selecting the most appropriate materials through performance, manufacturability, and sustainability evaluation. Intelligent tools can help designers with varying expertise by providing recommendations learned from prior designs. To enable this, we introduce a graph representation learning framework that supports the material prediction of bodies in assemblies. We formulate the material selection task as a node-level prediction task over the assembly graph representation of CAD models and tackle it using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Evaluations over three experimental protocols performed on the Fusion 360 Gallery dataset indicate the feasibility of our approach, achieving a 0.75 top-3 micro-F1 score. The proposed framework can scale to large datasets and incorporate designers’ knowledge into the learning process. These capabilities allow the framework to serve as a recommendation system for design automation and a baseline for future work, narrowing the gap between human designers and intelligent design agents.
Download publicationLeveraging the expressive power of graphs in capturing multi-modal information, we propose a framework in which material prediction is posed as a node prediction task and is tackled through learning representations using graph neural networks. Motivated by the importance of material selection to support design automation, this unified framework can help designers select appropriate materials by providing part-level material suggestions given a product assembly.
As illustrated in Figure 1, the proposed framework consists of three main modules: feature encoding, graph construction, and learning framework.
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