Dassault Systemes Solidworks Corporation

Spatial Corporation

Yunching Huang

Jody Todd Stiles

Salvatore Francis Lama

James Michael Gordon

Robert Jost

Paul H Stallings

Harish C Manohar

Barton Talbot Stander

A computer-based method is disclosed of wrapping a two-dimensional (2D) sketch onto a three-dimensional (3D) model. The method includes placing the 2D sketch onto a 2D grid, transforming the 2D grid to an initial location relative to the 3D model, mapping the 2D grid onto the 3D model to produce a 3D grid wrapped around the 3D model, evaluating the 2D sketch onto the 3D grid to produce a 3D image wrapped around the 3D model, wherein the 3D image wrapped around the 3D model corresponds to (e.g., has a similar appearance to, and was generated from) the 2D sketch, and creating one or more curves on the 3D model by projecting the 3D image onto the 3D model.

Wrapping a two-dimensional (2D) sketch onto a three-dimensional (3D) model

A computer-based method is disclosed for identifying a parting line for molding a real-world part based on computer model of the part. The method includes receiving a computer-based representation of a modeled part and a parting direction for the mold to make a real-world version of the part. Then a computer-based processor characterizes each respective one of a plurality of faces in the computer-based representation of the modeled part as a positive draft face or a negative draft face. The method includes identifying, as at least a segment of the parting line, a boundary edge between a first one of the positive draft faces and a first one of the negative draft faces that neighbors the first one of the positive draft faces.

Parting line identification

A computer-implemented method and system create a three-dimensional (3D) model represented by a sub-division surface and defining a solid or a surface model. A selected entity of the 3D model is selected and with one or more surrounding entities a determination is made of a type of operation to perform. The operation is an add operation or a remove operation, and the operation changes the topology of the 3D model.

Modifying a sub-division model based on the topology of a selection

Methods for the transformation of shapes in Computer Aided Design (CAD) applications applying a general function composition mechanism. This method allows the geometry of a shape expressed in terms of surface and curve functions and positions to be transformed by any generic function while maintaining the topography of the shape. Once the underlying geometry of the shape has been represented as a set of functions and positions, the functions and positions are composed with a transformation function to define new surface and curve functions. Once the new functions and positions have been created, the geometry of the transformed shape can be found by passing each point in the domain of each original geometry function through the new transformed function. This shape may then be displayed to the user, and the steps of this method repeated for refinement of the transformation function.

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Yunching Huang