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ABSTRACT
This paper describes a Desktop Haptic System, which supports designers in the evaluation and modification of aesthetic virtual shapes. This System includes the advantages of using the associative data to both CAD and multi-body tools and thus maintaining the parametric dependencies between them. In this way, as the parametric data model gets modified according with the designer's needs in the CAD system, the changes are consistently reflected in the multi-body system. Modifications on the virtual shape can be done by using a global approach or by using a CAD drawing, then the data model in the multi-body system is used to render a real 2D cross-section of the aesthetic virtual shape through a Desktop Haptic Interface (DHI), which allows a free-hand interaction with the aesthetic virtual object. The DHI is linked to the multi-body system by means of using MATLAB and Simulink in order to control their servo-actuators. We also present the results of the validation process specifically carried out to evaluate the accuracy and the effectiveness of the DHI while rendering 2D cross-sections of a virtual shape.