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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2019
Plethora Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nicholas J. Pinkston, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jonathan Stults, San Francisco, CA (US);
Plethora Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for automated part probing using a physical machine defining a physical working volume, the method including: generating a virtual model based on a virtual part design received from a user account, the virtual model comprising a virtual part model, based on the virtual part design, virtually fixed to a virtual fixture plate arranged within a virtual working volume representative of the physical working volume; generating a probing routine based on the virtual model; sending the probing routine to the machine; receiving probe outputs from the machine; and validating the virtual model based on the probe outputs.