This is a work flow that the Conceptual Modeling team looked at while developing the new Adaptive Component toolset.
This particular construction method was first attempted by Rahul, the brains behind much of the Adaptive Components code and one of the many hard working developers at the factory to whom I sacrifice a goat every full moon. (Look for the infinitely extended intersection line hack, this will start showing up more and more.)
Generally, this tutorial (in 2 parts) is riffing on a project that has been done in Catia/Digital Project and Inventor. For these examples, check out the posts on DesignReform
