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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2000
John Dennis Jackson, Wyoming, OH (US);
Dean Michael Robinson, Schenectady, NY (US);
Michael Evans Graham, Slingerlands, NY (US);
Gregory Alan Mohr, Scotia, NY (US);
Olalekan Solomon Odesanya, Schenectady, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method ( ) for manufacturing a precision part ( ) utilizing a non-precision fixture ( ). The non-precision fixture is precisely measured ( ) and modeled in a CAD program ( ) together with a model of the part ( ). The part model is nested ( ) into the fixture model, and a transformation matrix describing the movement of a coordinate system of the part during the step of nesting is recorded ( ). The transformation matrix may then be used to transform ( ) a tool path that had been developed for the originally designed shape of the fixture. Accordingly, imprecision in the location of a part within an imprecisely measured fixture may be accounted for during subsequent manufacturing operations.