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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 28, 2012
Applicants:

Craig Storms, West Hartford, CT (US);

Christian Tillich, Vienna, AT;

Thord Backe, Hopkinton, NH (US);

Felix Beer, Baden bei Wien, AT;

Michael Appolo, Iii, Manchester, NH (US);

Nick Liu, Shanghai, CN;

Damian Wilcox, Calgary, CA;

Inventors:

Craig Storms, West Hartford, CT (US);

Christian Tillich, Vienna, AT;

Thord Backe, Hopkinton, NH (US);

Felix Beer, Baden bei Wien, AT;

Michael Appolo, III, Manchester, NH (US);

Nick Liu, Shanghai, CN;

Damian Wilcox, Calgary, CA;

Assignee:

Autodesk, Inc., San Rafael, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/5086 (2013.01); G06F 2217/34 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a definition of a version of a part family comprising a plurality of parts, each part having a same shape and a different respective size, wherein the definition includes a set of parameter values for each part of the part family; storing the definition along with other versions of the part family in either a parametric or parametric-independent format; receiving a request for the part family for a particular computer-aided design system; converting a latest version to a different format that is compatible with the particular computer-aided design system; and providing the converted part family in response to the request.


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