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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2022
Autodesk, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Benjamin Mckittrick Weiss, Tualatin, OR (US);
Jesus Rodriguez, Farmington, MI (US);
Ebot Etchu Ndip-Agbor, Portland, OR (US);
Nigel Jed Wesley Morris, Toronto, CA;
Adrian Adam Thomas Butscher, Toronto, CA;
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 techniques that facilitate manufacturing, include: modifying a three dimensional shape, for which a corresponding physical structure is to be created using a manufacturing process, to produce a modified three dimensional shape; and providing the modified shape of the modeled object for use in manufacturing the physical structure using one or more computer-controlled manufacturing systems that employ the manufacturing process. The modifications can include, for each of two or more discrete layers of the three dimensional shape along a direction associated with the manufacturing process, extracting a two dimensional profile representation of the three dimensional shape in a current discrete layer, offsetting the two dimensional profile representation by an amount associated with the manufacturing process, and changing a next discrete layer using an offset two dimensional profile representation of the current discrete layer.