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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2021
Autodesk, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Damon Lau, New York, NY (US);
David Benjamin, Brooklyn, NY (US);
James Stoddart, Atlanta, GA (US);
Lorenzo Villaggi, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Dale Zhao, New York, NY (US);
AUTODESK, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for designing manufacturing facilities. A design application imports a computer-aided design (CAD) model and metadata associated with a manufacturing facility to generate a data set that specifies geometric and manufacturing constraints of the manufacturing facility. The design application performs optimization operations based on the data set to identify one or more high-performing designs that assign components to docks in the manufacturing facility. The optimization operations can include genetic optimization operations that generate multiple generations of designs, each of which is evaluated based on a travel distance, congestion, and number of turns associated with paths traversed by components for the design.