Autodesk, Inc.

Stephen Alan Barley

Nandakumar Santhanam

Martin Cvetanov Marinov

Gordon Thomas Finnigan

Suguru Furuta

Marco Amagliani

Peter Hugh Charrot

Siavash Navadeh Meshkat

Justin Nicholas Hallet

Jean Alison Flower

Tristan Ward Barback

Iain Edward Henley

Maciej Sapun

Pawel Wolski

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, including: receiving, by a shape modeling computer program, a selection of first geometry defined in a data structure used by the computer program to represent a three-dimensional model of an object and an indication of an amount of complexity reduction, The computer program produces a second geometry defined in the data structure based on the indication of the amount of indicated complexity reduction and taking into account local shape curvature for the first geometry, where the second geometry replaces the first geometry in representing the three-dimensional model of the object. The computer program provides the three-dimensional model of the object, with the second geometry included in the three-dimensional model, for use in manufacturing a physical structure corresponding to the object using one or more computer-controlled manufacturing systems, or for use in displaying the object on a display screen.

Computer aided automated shape generation of three-dimensional geometries

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures include, in at least one aspect, a fully automatic method of converting a generative design into an editable, watertight B-Rep by leveraging the generative solver input and representation to: (1) embed the exact input solid boundary surfaces where the design coincides with the input, (2) approximate everywhere else the design boundary with globally smooth, editable 'organic' surfaces, and (3) join all surfaces to form a generative design output B-Rep.

Conversion of mesh geometry to editable and watertight boundary representation in computer aided design

Conversion of generative design geometry to editable and watertight boundary representation in computer aided design

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

Stephen Alan Barley