... 2004 Equivalence Classes Functional Equivalence Shape Synthesis Design Space Higher Pairs Contact Sweep Unsweep Moving Parts Conventional design of mechanical parts focuses on generating a single completely specified nominal shape that is toleranced to allow for variations...

... envelopes, constrained piecewise-smooth sweeps, and sweep vector fields (SVFs), along with basic configuration space (C-space) methods. In essence, the volumetric (or areal) error, which is generated as the movable part in an assembly is swept throughout its complete constrained volume (or area), may...