Publication | ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference 2022
Material Prediction For Design Automation Using Graph Representation Learning
Following the Assembly Graph project, the paper represents CAD data with graphs in order to leverage Graph Neural Networks for a material prediction task of each part in the assemblies of the Fusion Gallery Dataset.
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Material Prediction For Design Automation Using Graph Representation Learning
Shijie Bian, Daniele Grandi, Kaveh Hassani, Bingbing Li
ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference 2022
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.
Associated Researchers
Shijie Bian
University of California
Kaveh Hassani
Autodesk Research
Elliot Sadler
California State University, Northridge
Bodia Borijin
California State University, Northridge
Axel Fernandes
California State University, Northridge
Andrew Wang
Portola High School
Thomas Lu
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Richard Otis
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Nhut Ho
California State University, Northridge
Bingbing Li
California State University, Northridge
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