The people of various domains, mechanical engineering for machine drawing, electronics engineering for circuit drawing, computer engineering for architectural design etc. generally use sketches. Sketch recognition is defined as the process of identifying symbols that user draw using single or multiple stroke. We have developed MAHI a sketching language based on geometrical rules for multi-domain Sketch Recognition MAHI offers the user more liberty for free-style sketching as well as for grouping the strokes, reducing the complexity for recognizing the sketches. And at the same time it edits the sketches as well as recognizes the sketches efficiently natural environment to the user. The recognition engine interprets the sketches based on the information obtained from the description of domains associated with the input from the user. We have created and tested a Multi-domain recognition engine for Sketch Recognition based on the system use multi-layer architecture for recognition engine.

Sketch recognition, Bayesian Network, Heuristic

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