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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2016
Exa Corporation, Burlington, MA (US);
Brad Duncan, Lexintgon, MA (US);
Andrea Shestopalov, Billerica, MA (US);
Exa Corporation, Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing data in a data processing system to identify candidate modifications to physical features of a mechanical device. One of the methods includes converting a representation of the mechanical device into a representation of surface elements. The method includes that based on the representation of the surface elements, computing an effect to evaluation criteria of each of a design variable. The method includes converting the design variables and the computed effect into component vectors. The method includes computing a composite design vector for the evaluation criteria using the component vectors, with the composite design vector comprising a combination of design variable settings to improve the evaluation criteria, and specifying a vector in a design variable space. The method also includes generating a physical modification specification for the mechanical device based on the composite design vector.