BrepDiff: Single-Stage B-rep Diffusion Model

Abstract

The Boundary Representation (B-rep) is a widely used 3D model representation of most consumer products designed with CAD software. However, its highly irregular and sparse set of relationships poses significant challenges for designing a generative model tailored to B-reps. Existing approaches use multi-stage approaches to satisfy the complex constraints sequentially. As a result, the final geometry cannot incorporate user edits due to the non-deterministic dependencies between cascaded stages. In contrast, we propose BrepDiff, a single-stage diffusion model for B-rep generation. We present a masked UV grid representation consisting of structured point samples from faces, serving as input for a diffusion transformer. By introducing an asynchronous and shifted noise schedule, we improve the training signal, enabling the diffusion model to better capture the distribution of UV grids. The explicitness of our masked UV grid representation enables users to intuitively understand and freely design surface geometry without being constrained by topological validity. The interconnectivity can be derived from the face layout, which is later processed into a valid solid volume during post-processing. Our approach achieves performance on par with state-of-the-art cascaded models while offering complex and diverse manipulations of geometry and topology, such as shape completion, merging, and interpolation.