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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2005
Randall C. Smith, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
David R. Warn, Royal Oak, MI (US);
Richard R. Pawlicki, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Randall C. Smith, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
David R. Warn, Royal Oak, MI (US);
Richard R. Pawlicki, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
GM Global Technology Operations, Inc., Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a system and a method for designing geometric shapes for automobiles or any other manufactured objects. The method of a vehicle design system is for analyzing constraints on parameters of a vehicle model, the vehicle design system including a catalog of exemplars from which a user may select exemplar input and at least one engineering criteria having a plurality of criteria values from which a user may select criteria values. The method includes providing a morphable vehicle model generated from exemplar input, selecting a first criteria, evaluating the morphable model with respect to the first criteria to determine the value, selecting a new target criteria value from the plurality of criteria values, and updating the morphable model shape to achieve this value.