Verifying the design of an article of manufacture containing the arrangement of shapes subject to boundary distance constraints among those shapes

• Main Author: Morton, Paul B
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 13.02.2024
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

This disclosure describes a method to verify the design of an article of manufacture that includes a software program executing on a workstation that executes the following steps: providing the shape of a first component and providing the shape of a second component; providing a boundary distance constraint; constructing a shape spectrum of the exterior boundary surface of closest approach associated with the shape of the first component, the shape of the second component, and the boundary distance constraint; verifying that the arrangement of the shape of the first component and the shape of the second component satisfy the boundary distance constraint; evaluating a subderivative of the shape spectrum of the exterior boundary surface of closest approach associated with the shape of the first component, the shape of the second component; where verifying that the boundary distance constraint is satisfied between the shape of the first component and the shape of the second component and when satisfied, the design of the article of manufacture can be verified.