Computer-Aided Design is a leading international journal that provides academia and industry with key papers on research and developments in the application of computers to design.

Computer-Aided Design invites papers reporting new research, as well as novel or particularly significant applications, within a wide range of topics, spanning all stages of design process from concept creation to manufacture and beyond. Examples of relevant topics include but are not limited to: 

• Foundational theories, frameworks, methodologies, and standards
• Geometric and topological methods for shape and solid modeling
• Structural, material and physical modeling
• Virtual reality and prototyping methods
• Advanced support of manufacturing and downstream activities of product realization
• User interfaces, system interfaces and system interoperability
• Knowledge-intensive technologies for design
• Design databases, knowledge repositories, object libraries and retrieval
• Modeling and design of multi-scale objects and systems
• Specific applications and significant benchmarks of computer-aided design
• Emergent issues of advanced design support
• Uncertainty and imprecision in computer-aided design

Contributions are welcome from all disciplines, provided that they have a significant geometric, topological, spatial, or configuration design content, and present developments likely to be of interest to a broad spectrum of researchers, educators, and practitioners of computer-aided design.

Types of Papers:

Research papers: will report significant research and development results, describe the relevant theoretical foundations and the methodology, and present workable algorithms and give examples taken from real world applications, stressing the significance of the approach being presented.


Application papers: will describe complex and pioneering applications of CAD concepts, methods and tools in practice, present significant results that extend the disciplinary knowledge and/or analyze the application in a way that is likely to stimulate and influence further research.


Survey papers: will critically analyze the current state of knowledge in a given field of CAD, summarize and organize recent research results in a novel way, derive new insights and add understanding to working in the field, and propose possible topics, orientations and approaches for future research and development.


Technical notes: will respond to material published in the journal or closely related topics, repair a flaw in the definition and approach or stimulate further thinking, or provide additional technical details on a CAD theory, technology, methodology, product or application.

Ideal research papers 
Application papers
Review papers 
Letters to the Editors 
Book reviews 
short scientific communication

Editor-in-Chief
V. Shapiro
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States Email V. Shapiro
Editorial Board
G. Allen
nTopology, New York, New York, United States
P. Alliez
Inria Sophia Antipolis Mediterranean Research Centre, Sophia Antipolis, France
M. Barton
Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao, Spain
W.F. Bronsvoort
TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands https://graphics.tudelft.nl/~wim/Feature modelling, Constraint Solving, Mesh Generation
Y. Chen
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~yongchen/3D printing, process modeling, geometry processing
G. Elber
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israelhttp://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gershon/Geometric Modeling, Manufacturing, Freeform Representations
T. Grandine
Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Seattle, Washington, United States
S. Hahmann
University Grenoble Alpes, INRIA, Grenoble, France http://team.inria.fr/imagine/stefanie-hahmann/Geometric modeling and design, freeform curves and surfaces, sketch-based modeling
C.M. Hoffmann
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
S.-M. Hu
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
K.-C. Hui
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Konghttp://www.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/~kchui/Computer Graphics, Geometric Modeling, Solid Modeling, Virtual Reality, CAD
H. Ilies
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States
T. Ju
Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United Stateshttp://www.cse.wustl.edu/~taoju/Geometry processing, shape understanding, and biomedical applications
P. D. Kaklis
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdomhttps://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/kaklispanagiotisprof/ Geometric Modeling, CAD-CAE integration, Virtual Reality; applications in Ship Design and Free-surface Hydrodynamics
L.B. Kara
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
M.-S. Kim
Seoul National University Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
T.W. Kim
Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea http://caditlab.snu.ac.kr/Professor Curve and Surface Modeling, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning
L. Kobbelt
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
J.C. Leon
Inria Research Centre Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, Montbonnot St Martin, France
T. Maekawa
Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan http://maekawalab-ynu.comGeometry Processing, Differential Geometry, 3D Reconstruction, Curve, Surface, and Volume Modeling
A. Menges
European Graduate School
S. Nelaturi
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, California, United States
S. J. Owen
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
A. Pasko
Bournemouth University, Poole, Dorset, England, United Kingdomhttp://www.pasko.org/apSolid modeling, volume modeling, 3D printing, additive manufacturing
J. Peters
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United Stateshttp://www.cise.ufl.edu/~jorg/Free-form modeling and surface design using spline, Bezier, subdivision or implicit representations, computing (solving pdes) on surfaces
H. Pottmann
TU Wien University, Wien, Austria
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabiahttp://vcc.kaust.edu.sa/Pages/Pottmann.aspxApplied Geometry, Architectural Geometry, Geometric Modeling, Geometry Processing, Geometry for Manufacturing
X. Qian
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United Stateshttp://qian.me.wisc.eduStatistical shape modeling, shape and topology optimization, CAD/CAM
H. Qin
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States
W.C. Regli
University of Maryland at College Park, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
J. Rossignac
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
N. S. Sapidis
Panepistemio Dytikes Makedonias, Kozani, Greecehttp://mech.uowm.gr/index.php/staff/317 Mechanical Computer-Aided Design/Engineering (Mechanical CAD/CAE), Information Modeling for Product Design and Mechanical Engineering, Sketch-based Geometric Modeling, Mesh Processing, Solid & Surfacing Modeling
S. Schaefer
Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, Texas, United Stateshttp://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/schaefer/
K. Shea
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland http://www.edac.ethz.ch/the-group/people-new/shea--kristina--prof--dr-.html/
H. Shin
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Koreahttp://sal.kaist.ac.krComputer-Aided Manufactuing, 3D Printing, Mesh modeling, Monte Carlo Simulation, Probablistic graphical model
M. Sitharam
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~sitharam Geometric constraints for modeling, design and teaching in science and engineering; (bio)molecular and materials modeling; combinatorial and applied algebraic geometry; geometric foundations for machine learning, algorithms and complexity
V. Srinivasan
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United Stateshttp://www.nist.gov/el/msid/vsrinivasan.cfmComputer-aided design and manufacturing, geometric modeling, computational geometry, geometric tolerancing, computational metrology, model-based systems engineering, product development, standards
K. Suresh
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United Stateshttp://www.ersl.wisc.edu/ Topology optimization, finite element analysis, high performance computing, additive manufacturing
K. Tang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Konghttp://ihome.ust.hk/~mektang/Multi-axis machining, geometric optimization algorithms, tool path generation algorithms, developable surfaces and their applications.
C. L. Wang
TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands http://www.io.tudelft.nl/en/organisation/personal-profiles/professors/wang-ccl/
M.Y. Wang
National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore http://me.nus.edu.sgTopology optimization, solid modeling, 3D printing
C. Williams
Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden
J. Wu
TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands
Y.J. Zhang
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United Stateshttp://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jessicaz / Computational geometry, mesh generation, computer graphics, visualization, finite element method, isogeometric analysis and their application in computational biomedicine and engineering
Advisory Board
C.M. Eastman
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States Email C.M. Eastman
J.S. Gero
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States Email J.S. Gero
I. Horváth
TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands Email I. Horváth
K. Lee
Seoul National University Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of Email K. Lee
N.M. Patrikalakis
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Email N.M. Patrikalakis
D.F. Rogers
US Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, United States Email D.F. Rogers
M.A. Sabin
Numerical Geometry Ltd, Lode, Cambridge, United Kingdom Email M.A. Sabin