US 11,080,447 B2Granted

System and part design based on structured requirements

AssigneeThe Boeing Company

InventorsTimothy Blake Sanders, Keith Olson Kubie, Matthew David Walson

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Abstract

A computer-implemented method and system provide the ability to design a part to be physically produced. Structured requirements objects for a component are created and each object is a mandatory functional or logical characteristic of the component. Logical system volumes are created in a component system using a computer-aided design (CAD) program. Each of the logical system volumes is an abstract geometric three-dimensional volume in a virtual context of the part to be physically produced. The structured requirements objects are linked to each of the logical system volumes. A part shape is built in the component system using the same virtual context of the part to be physically produced. Volume intersections are determined as the logical system volumes that the part shape intersects with. The structured requirements objects that are linked to the volume intersections are collected. The part is designed based upon the collected structured requirements objects.

Claims24

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for designing a part to be physically produced, comprising:

creating (302) one or more structured requirements objects for a component, wherein each of the one or more structured requirements objects comprises a mandatory characteristic of the component;
creating (304) one or more logical system volumes (504)s in a component system using a computer-aided design (CAD) program, wherein each of the one or more logical system volumes (504) comprises an abstract geometric three-dimensional volume in a virtual context of the part to be physically produced;
linking (306) one or more structured requirements objects to each of the one or more logical system volumes (504);
building (308) a part shape in the component system using the same virtual context of the part to be physically produced within the CAD program;
determining (310) one or more volume intersections (606-612), wherein the one or more volume intersections (606-612) comprise the one or more logical system volumes (504) that the part shape intersects with;
collecting (312) the one or more structured requirements objects that are linked to the one or more volume intersections (606-612);
and
designing (314) the part, in the CAD program, based upon the collected one or more structured requirements objects.

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A computer-implemented system for designing a part to be physically produced, comprising:

(a) a computer (1002) having a memory (1006);
(b) a processor (1004) executing on the computer (1002);
(c) the memory (1006) storing a computer-aided design (CAD) application (1112) that is executed by the processor (1004), wherein the CAD application (1112):
(1) creates (302) one or more structured requirements objects for a component, wherein each of the one or more structured requirements objects comprises a mandatory characteristic of the component;
(2) creates (304) one or more logical system volumes (504) in a component system, wherein each of the one or more logical system volumes (504) comprises an abstract geometric three-dimensional volume in a virtual context of the part to be physically produced;
(3) links (306) one or more structured requirements objects to each of the one or more logical system volumes (504);
(4) builds (308) a part shape in the component system using the same virtual context of the part to be physically produced;
(5) determines (310) one or more volume intersections (606-612), wherein the one or more volume intersections (606-612) comprise the one or more logical system volumes (504) that the part shape intersects with;
(6) collects (312) the one or more structured requirements objects that are linked to the one or more volume intersections (606-612);
and
(7) designs (314) the part, based upon the collected one or more structured requirements objects.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/424,233Filed 28 May 2019
Published: US 2020/0380079 A13 Dec 2020
Granted: 3 Aug 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G06F 30/15
Geometric CAD: vehicle, aircraft or watercraft design
G06F 30/3323
Design verification, e.g. functional simulation or model checking: using formal methods, e.g. equivalence checking or property checking
G06F 30/27
Design optimisation, verification or simulation: using machine learning, e.g. artificial intelligence, neural networks, support vector machines…
G06F 30/392
Circuit design at the physical level: floor-planning or layout, e.g. partitioning or placement