Pointer-CAD v2: Plan-Then-Construct CAD Generation with Dimension-Aware Parametric Precision
Sep 8, 2026·
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Dacheng Qi
Chenyu Wang
Jingwei Xu
Yi Ma
Shenghua Gao
Image credit: UnsplashAbstract
In this work, we present Pointer-CAD v2. Compared with v1, this version directly predicts continuous values, bypassing the need for quantized numerical parameters and thereby eliminating quantization errors. Specifically, we propose a unified framework that decouples parameter reasoning from geometric construction through a Plan-Then-Construct paradigm. Our method first produces a structured design plan with explicit metric scale parameters. These parameters are organized into a dictionary and directly referenced during sequence generation via a pointer mechanism, eliminating discretization errors and ensuring dimensionally consistent execution. In addition, we construct a new large-scale dataset with plan-level annotation and introduce three hierarchical geometry accuracy metrics to evaluate parametric fidelity at the vertex, edge, and face levels.
Type
Publication
The 19th European Conference on Computer Vision
Status
Peer-reviewed
Open access
License
CC-BY-4.0
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Authors
Dacheng Qi
(he/him)
PhD Student
I am a Ph.D. student in Computing & Data Science at The University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Yi Ma and Prof. Shenghua Gao. I received my M.S. degree from Beihang University under the supervision of Prof. Wenrui Ding and Researcher Yufeng Wang.
My research interests lie in generative methods for 3D design and manufacturing, especially parametric CAD synthesis and its integration with multimodal large language models. Before this, I worked on 3D generation.