CREATION AND PUBLISHING OF VIRTUAL COMPONENTS

A method for use in CAD modeling software to define product structure based on virtual components created independent from geometry and without the need to create files on disk. With the additional capability of assigning geometry to the virtual components of the product structure that sets and orie...

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Main Authors TASSONE, ANTHONY, E, MATHIS, MICHAEL, R, KASPRAZAK, KRIS, C, STAPLES, DANIEL, C, PINGALI, PRASAD, GURUSHANKAR, ADITYA, N, PATRICK, ARTHUR, S, WALKER, JEFFREY, A
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
Published 18.01.2007
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
PHYSICS
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Summary:A method for use in CAD modeling software to define product structure based on virtual components created independent from geometry and without the need to create files on disk. With the additional capability of assigning geometry to the virtual components of the product structure that sets and orients the virtual components and manages multiple occurrences of like components. Further, the virtual component are published into real components with automatic 3D file creation completed. L'invention concerne un procédé d'utilisation d'un logiciel de modélisation CAD pour définir une structure de produit sur la base de composants virtuels créés, indépendamment du facteur de géométrie et sans création de fichiers sur un disque. De plus, l'invention permet d'affecter une géométrie aux composants virtuels de la structure de produit qui définit et qui oriente les composants virtuels, tout en gérant les multiples occurrences des composants similaires. De plus, les composants virtuels sont édités sous forme de composants réels par création automatique d'un fichier 3D.
Bibliography:Application Number: WO2006US21038