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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 1995
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1992
Craig Bolon, Brookline, MA (US);
Mahesh Kanumury, Boston, MA (US);
Walid T Keyrouz, Austin, TX (US);
Glenn A Kramer, Austin, TX (US);
Eric A Moore, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jahir A Pabon, Austin, TX (US);
Schlumberger Technology Corp., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A method, useful in computer-aided design, for finding configurations of collections of geometric elements representing shapes of physical objects that satisfy a set of geometric constraints, when these constraints relate to topological properties of the geometric elements. In particular, the invention relates to a method that classifies the geometric elements in terms of degrees of freedom, categorizes topological properties in terms of biases, and synthesizes a solution by progressively reducing the total degrees of freedom in the system.