Special Issue on Solid Modeling Applications in Design & Manufacturing

The ACM/SIGGRAPH Symposia on Solid Modeling and Applications provide an international forum for the exchange of recent research and practical results in all areas and applications of solid modeling. These symposia bring together prominent researchers, practitioners, and numerous students in the field. The sixth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications was held in Ann Arbor, Michigan on June 4-8, 2001. The general chair was Deba Dutta of the University of Michigan, the tutorials chair was Hans-Peter Seidel of the Max Planck Institute and the program committee comprised 25 prominent experts in solid modeling in industries and universities from around the world. Previous symposia in this series were in Austin, Texas, 1991; Montreal, Canada, 1993; Salt Lake City, Utah, 1995; Atlanta, Georgia, 1997, and Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1999. More than 90 papers were submitted to the 2001 symposium, only 30 of which could be accepted. From the 30 papers presented at the symposium, 11 were selected for this special issue of JCISE. These papers have all been updated and extended since being presented at the conference. The topics of the papers include fundamental issues on the rep-