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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2017
Applicant:
United Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Inventor:
Matthew E. Lynch, Canton, CT (US);
Assignee:
United Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/08 (2011.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 19/20 (2011.01); G06T 5/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 19/20 (2013.01); G06F 17/5009 (2013.01); G06F 17/5018 (2013.01); G06F 17/5086 (2013.01); G06T 5/002 (2013.01); G06T 15/08 (2013.01); G06F 2217/08 (2013.01); G06F 2217/12 (2013.01); G06F 2217/16 (2013.01); G06T 5/30 (2013.01); G06T 2200/04 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20032 (2013.01); Y02P 90/265 (2015.11);
Abstract
A method of generating a smooth optimized part design for a workpiece is presented. Topology optimization is performed based on design objectives, to generate surface data describing an optimized but unfinished surface of the workpiece. The surface data is used to generate volumetric data describing the workpiece structure. A three dimensional smoothing filter is applied to the volumetric data. A manufacturing design is generated from the resulting smoothed volumetric data.