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US 2010/0245351 A1Published application
Computer aided design method and system for modular layouts
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InventorERIC SELLEM
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The invention relates to the design of layouts for a room in which a user wishes to position elements figuring in a collection of catalogs. Prior art systems only allow incremental construction by making direct selections from one or more catalogs. The inventive system and procedure allow rapid, overall construction of several solutions satisfying a certain number of constraints determined by the room, the user or the distributor of the equipment to be positioned, as well as rules derived from experience in the field of the equipment concerned. The method is subdivided into the steps of spatial analysis, definition of layout templates, selection of candidates from the collection of catalogs and optimization of the positioning. The system permits simultaneous visualization in three dimensions of optimum solutions and the printing of two-dimensional assembly drawings. The procedure and the system are preferably applicable to kitchen layouts.
A method for generating, by means of a computer at least a solution for positioning in a room a set of elements chosen from a collection of catalogs comprising at least one catalog, said method comprising at least a first room spatial analysis step permitting identification of available volumes, a second step of generating at least one positioning solution by identifying from the collection of catalogs, elements compatible with the identified available volumes resulting from the first step which satisfy a set of predefined selection constraints comprising at least one constraint and a third step for the positioning of at least a part of the identified elements resulting from the second step in a part of the available volumes according to a set of positioning rules comprising at least one rule, wherein said first step of spatial analysis comprises at least a first sub-step for detecting reserved spaces, a second sub-step for calculating free zones and a third sub-step for searching for a set of configurations of free sub-zones comprising at least one free sub-zone.
A computer system for generating at least one solution for positioning in a room a set of elements chosen from a collection of catalogs comprising at least one catalog, said computer system comprising at least a first room spatial analysis module permitting identification of the available volumes, a second module for generating at least one positioning solution by identifying from the collection of catalogs, elements compatible with the identified available volumes identified at the output of the first module which satisfy a set of predefined selection constraints comprising at least one constraint and a third module for the positioning of at least a part of the identified elements resulting from the second module in part of the available volumes according to a set of positioning rules comprising at least one rule, wherein the first spatial analysis module is able to execute a function for the detection of reserved spaces, a function for the calculation of free zones and a function for searching for a set of configurations of free sub-zones comprising at least one free sub-zone.
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