Method and system of using standardized structural components
AssigneePatco, LLC
InventorsJohn Louis Vanker, Michael J. Lastowski
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Abstract
A method and system disclosed herein provides generating an architectural diagram describing an architectural layout of a building, wherein one or more walls of the building are designated as standardized structural walls, automatically positioning each of the standardized structural walls to a geometric grid, and mapping (or “placing”), using a computer, one or more of a plurality of standardized structural components, including standardized panels, standardized columns, and standardized trusses to coordinates of the geometric grid.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- generating an architectural diagram describing an architectural layout of a building, wherein one or more walls of the building are designated as standardized structural walls;
- automatically positioning, using a computer, each of the standardized structural walls to a three dimensional geometric grid by aligning the each of the standardized structural walls along grid lines of the three dimensional geometric grid and along grid line intersections of the three dimensional geometric grid;
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- automatically mapping, one or more of a plurality of standardized structural components to coordinates of the three dimensional geometric grid.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing computer executable instructions for performing a computer process on a computing system, the computer process comprising:
- generating an architectural diagram describing an architectural layout of a building, wherein one or more walls of the building are designated as standardized structural walls;
- automatically positioning, using a computer, each of the standardized structural walls to a three dimensional geometric grid by aligning the each of the standardized structural walls along grid lines of the three dimensional geometric grid and along grid line intersections of the three dimensional geometric grid;
- automatically mapping, one or more of a plurality of standardized structural components to coordinates of the three dimensional geometric grid;
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- uniquely associating one or more of a plurality of identification codes with each of the one or more of the plurality of the standardized structural components.
A system, comprising:
- a design module configured to generate an architectural diagram describing an architectural layout of a building, wherein the design module is configured to allow designating one or more walls of the building as standardized structural walls;
- a geometric grid module configured to generate a geometric grid having grid lines and grid intersections and to position, one or more of the standardized structural walls to the geometric grid by aligning the each of the standardized structural walls along the grid lines and along the grid line intersections;
- a mapping solution module comprising one or more computerized instructions stored on a computer memory, the mapping solution module configured to map, using a processor, one or more of a plurality of standardized structural components to the grid lines and the grid line intersections;
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- an output module configured to communicate with a light gauge roll forming machine using a macro file comprising track element specifications and stud element specifications for the standardized structural components to control positioning of at least one of punches, dimples and lengths of at least one of the track elements and the stud elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.