Onshape Inc.

Ptc Inc.

Malay Kumar

Parapura Rajkumar

Scott S Harris

Nicholas J Eyre

Ilya Baran

Michael R Lauer

Philip Gareth Thomas

Paul R Chastell

John Rousseau

Lana Saksonov

Jon K Hirschtick

Andrew John Morris

Louis V Gallo, Iii

Daniel Vlasic

Rammohan Vangapalli

Gary Amadon

Steven C Hess

Bo Yuan

Brian Henry Drake

Noah Samuel Feldman

Ravi Nallapareddy

Karl Evan Nowak

In most of today's computer aided design (CAD), there are many definitive relationship between how components used in a CAD design relate to other components and feature in the same design. These relationships include sizing (a component is sized based upon another component), placement and orientation (a component is position and orientated based upon another component or feature). In addition, certain components can only be used with other specific components within the same design. Various attributes are placed on the CAD components and features that relate to each other that will be used to automatically size, place and orientate components, as well as make sure the component is valid to be used within the design intent. This saves designers considerable amount of design time as well as ensuring accurate component to component relationship as used in their design.

Smart relations of computer aided design (CAD) components

Disclosed is a parametric feature-based 3D CAD system that allows multiple users to simultaneously edit a parametric feature-based 3D CAD model consisting of 3D parts and assemblies of those parts (3D Model). Several CAD users, each using their own computer, phone, or tablet, can edit the same 3D Model at the same time. Editing may be separate and simultaneous&#x2014;there is no need for users to worry about locking, checking out, or otherwise restricting each other's access to 3D Models. As a result, users see each other's changes occur in real-time, and may also identify what aspects other users are actively modifying through visible Collaboration Cues.

Multi-user cloud parametric feature-based 3D CAD system

A method is disclosed to model a part in the context of one or more assembly states. This method stores references of one or more states of one or more assemblies that a user wants to model a part against, and allows the user to reference surrounding parts from references of assembly states in one or more parametric features. Each reference of assembly with other necessary data is stored in a user object called a context. The assembly can be modified to move components as per desired motion while the part is modeled against one or more assembly states. Also provided is an interface to manage assembly states that are important for a part design for relating to other parts in the assembly. Such interface lets the user update one or more assembly states and associated features for each state at any time during design cycle.

Computer aided design system with in-context modeling

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Acton, MA, United States of America

Malay Kumar