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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2019
Autodesk, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Karl Darcy Daniel Willis, San Bruno, CA (US);
Nigel Jed Wesley Morris, Toronto, CA;
Andreas Linas Bastian, Oakland, CA (US);
Adrian Adam Thomas Butscher, Toronto, CA;
Daniele Grandi, London, GB;
Suguru Furuta, Cambridge, GB;
Joseph George Lambourne, London, GB;
Tristan Ward Barback, Cambridge, GB;
Martin Cvetanov Marinov, Cambridge, GB;
Marco Amagliani, Cambridge, GB;
Jingyang John Chen, Novi, MI (US);
Michael Andrew Smell, Oakdale, PA (US);
Brian M. Frank, Lunenburg, MA (US);
Hooman Shayani, Longfield, GB;
Christopher Michael Wade, Birmingham, GB;
Nandakumar Santhanam, Ithaca, NY (US);
Autodesk, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures using data format conversion (e.g., of output(s) from generative design processes) and user interface techniques that facilitate the production of 3D models of physical structures that are readily usable with 2.5-axis subtractive manufacturing, include: modifying smooth curves, which have been fit to contours representing discrete height layers of an object, to facilitate the 2.5-axis subtractive manufacturing; preparing an editable model of the object using a parametric feature history, which includes a sketch feature, to combine extruded versions of the smooth curves to form a 3D model of the object in a boundary representation format; reshaping a subset of the smooth curves responsive to user input with respect to the sketch feature; and replaying the parametric feature history to reconstruct the 3D model of the object, as changed by the user input.