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US 2018/0107186 A1Published application
Automatic strategy determination for computer aided manufacturing
AssigneePlethora Corporation
InventorsWilliam Haldean Brown, Ruza Markov, Michael Rivlin, Ambrus Csaszar, Jonathan Stults
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Abstract
A method for automated manufacturing strategy generation can include: identifying features of a desired part from a virtual model; and determining a tactic strategy based on the identified features. The method can additionally include: determining a toolpath primitive for each tactic; combining the toolpath primitives for the tactics to generate a master toolpath; and translating the master toolpath into machine code.
Claims1
A method for automatic toolpath generation, comprising:
- receiving a virtual part from a user account, the virtual part comprising a plurality of part features;
- for each part feature of the plurality, determining a feature class for the part feature, wherein the determined feature class is one of a predetermined set of feature classes;
- for each part feature of the plurality, determining an ordered series of tactics based on the respective feature class, wherein each successive tactic within an ordered series is dependent upon a preceding tactic within the ordered series;
- ordering the tactics from all part features of the plurality into a master series while preserving the tactic dependencies;
- determining a toolpath primitive for each tactic based on the respective tactic and geometry of the respective part feature;
- combining the toolpath primitives for the tactics based on the master series to generate a master toolpath;
- translating the master toolpath into machine code;
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- manufacturing a physical part by controlling a machine according to the machine code.
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