The Boeing Company

Jeffery A Bus

James J Troy

Michael Patrick Sciarra

Nikoli Prazak

William Eric Ward

Kevin Puterbaugh

William McGarry

John Carney Gass

Steven Malarkey

Katherine I Meza

William J Brown

A method is provided that includes rendering for display, a digital three-dimensional (3D) model of a structural product composed of a plurality of parts, with the digital 3D model being observed from a home viewpoint. Input is received to navigate the digital 3D model to a part of the plurality of parts, observation of the digital 3D model being moved from the home viewpoint to a navigated viewpoint. A digital label is generated that includes information specifying the navigated viewpoint and includes information for the part. The digital label may be output to a label recorder configured to record the digital label on a physical medium and thereby produce a corresponding physical label. At least the navigated viewpoint of the digital 3D model in the digital label and corresponding physical label are in a machine-readable format and capable of being machine-read to automatically restore the digital 3D model at the navigated viewpoint.

Data acquisition and encoding process linking physical objects with virtual data for manufacturing, inspection, maintenance and repair

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Bothell, WA, United States of America

Jeffery A Bus