SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELEMENT QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN 3D QUADRILATERAL-DOMINANT SURFACE MESHES

    公开(公告)号:US20210103685A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-08

    申请号:US16336641

    申请日:2016-10-31

    IPC分类号: G06F30/12 G06F30/23

    摘要: A system and method is provided for element quality improvement in three-dimensional (3D) quadrilateral-dominant surface meshes. The system may include a processor configured to collapse a first plurality of edges of a plurality of quadrilateral elements that form a surface mesh of a 3D model, which edges have lengths that are shorter than a predetermined fraction of a minimum element edge length (MEL). Further, the processor may also move nodes connected to at least some of a second plurality of edges of the plurality of quadrilateral elements so as to have lengths that are at least the MEL. Also, the processor may adjust included angles and the warp of elements to be within predetermined limits. Further, the processor may collapse in the mesh all remaining edges of the plurality of quadrilateral elements that are shorter than the MEL to produce a modified surface mesh in which all quadrilaterals in the modified mesh have edge lengths that are at least the MEL.

    SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE DOMAIN REDUCTION FOR THERMO-STRUCTURAL SIMULATION OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS

    公开(公告)号:US20210103268A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-08

    申请号:US16471353

    申请日:2017-01-26

    IPC分类号: G05B19/4099 G06F30/20

    摘要: A system and method are provided for adaptive domain reduction for thermo-structural simulation of an additive manufacturing process. The system may include a processor configured to carry out a simulation of a part being additively produced according to a set of tool paths. The simulation may include determining an original mesh of the part; determining an order of the elements of the original mesh to deposit; and simulating an incremental deposit of each of the elements of the original mesh for a material in the order that the elements are determined to be deposited. For each incremental deposit of an additional respective element the processor may determine thermal characteristics and structural deformation characteristics of the deposited elements. After the deposit of several layers have been simulated, subsequent simulation of elements may be carried out based on a respective modified version of the original mesh in which at least some of the layers of the original mesh previously simulated to be deposited under a current layer are retained and at least some are omitted.

    EXPERT KNOWLEDGE FRAMEWORK DRIVEN HYBRID MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20200264589A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-20

    申请号:US16276448

    申请日:2019-02-14

    IPC分类号: G05B19/418 G06F17/50

    摘要: Methods for hybrid manufacturing and planning and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes receiving, by a data processing system, a computer-aided-design (CAD) model of a part to be manufactured and tools definitions of tools available for a manufacturing process. The method includes instantiating a virtual workpiece. The method includes instantiating the tools definitions against a manufacturing ontology to produce virtual tools. The method includes receiving operations for the virtual tools. The method includes searching for combinations of the operations to be performed on the virtual workpiece to make the virtual workpiece correspond to the CAD model. The method includes identifying possible manufacturing solutions according to the search. The method includes selecting a manufacturing plan from the possible manufacturing solutions.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SMT PROCESSES USING UNINTERPRETED FUNCTION SYMBOLS

    公开(公告)号:US20200074017A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-05

    申请号:US16469068

    申请日:2017-04-11

    IPC分类号: G06F17/50 G06Q10/06

    摘要: Systems and methods for SMT processes using uninterpreted function symbols. A method includes receiving a configuration model. The method includes computing a variant for the configuration model that includes a non-linear function. The method includes identifying input/output pairs in the non-linear function of the variant. The method includes executing a process on an external application for each input/output pair to produce an output value corresponding to each input of the input/output pairs. The method includes comparing the output value corresponding to each input of the input/output pairs with the output corresponding to each input of the input/output pairs. The method includes, when the output value corresponding to each input of the input/output pairs is equal to the output corresponding to each input of the input/output pairs, then the system stores an indication that the variant is correct.

    Navigating and authoring configured product lifecycle data

    公开(公告)号:US10409922B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-10

    申请号:US14535844

    申请日:2014-11-07

    IPC分类号: G06F17/50

    摘要: Methods for product data management and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. The systems and methods include receiving a request for expanded details about an architecture element of a model from an application client, parsing the request to identify the expanded details of the architecture element, identifying a structure and configuration details of the model, configuring the model according to the structure and configuration details, traversing the model to collect the expanded details for the architecture element, packaging the expanded details into an application format for the client, and returning the expanded details.

    Apparatus and method for additive manufacturing

    公开(公告)号:US10307957B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-04

    申请号:US14643539

    申请日:2015-03-10

    摘要: A component of a computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) system may be configured to cause a processor to generate instructions that specify how a 3D-printer additively builds an article on a build plate via depositing material from a deposition head. The 3D printer is configured to cause the deposition head to rotate in order to selectively change, an angle of a deposition axis at which the deposition head outputs material. The generated instructions specify how the deposition head is operated by the 3D printer to build the article on the build plate such that material deposited along a side wall surface of the article is provided by the deposition head having its deposition axis orientated at an angle determined based at least in part on an angular orientation of the side wall surface.