Computer-implemented method of estimating a mass distribution of a physical product

Abstract

A computer-implemented method estimates a mass distribution of a physical product comprising a plurality of product parts. The method: a) creates a data structure comprising, for each part, data representing position and orientation of the part, its mass of the part, preferably its tolerance associated to each mass of the part, and its geometry in voxel format; b) decomposes a digital model of the physical product into a plurality of parallel slices (SL); c) for each slice, uses the data structure for identifying a set of product parts of the data structure overlapping with the slice and determining a respective overlap rate; and d) attributes to each slice a mass value corresponding to a sum of the masses of all product parts overlapping with the slice, weighted by the respective overlap rates. A computer program product, non-transitory computer-readable data-storage medium, a computer system and a Computer Aided Design (CAD) Systems carry out such a method.