Designing a manufacturing product having one or more mechanical functionalities

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a computer program having instructions for performing a method for designing a manufacturing product having one or more mechanical functionalities, the method comprising:

• obtaining a first instance of a CAD model, the CAD model including a feature tree having a plurality of continuous CAD parameters, the CAD model further including a set of one or more parameterization constraints which specifies the one or more mechanical functionalities, the first instance including a first value for each continuous CAD parameter;
• obtaining a mesh representing a target boundary shape of the manufacturing product;
• and
• determining a second instance of the CAD model from the first instance of the CAD model, the second instance including a second value for each continuous CAD parameter, the determining of the second instance consisting of computing the second values by modifying at least part of the first values, so as to minimize a shape dissimilarity metric between a boundary shape represented by the first instance of the CAD model and the target boundary shape.

A system comprising:

• a processor coupled to a memory, the memory having recorded thereon a computer program for designing a manufacturing product having one or more mechanical functionalities that when executed by the processor causes the processor to be configured to:
• obtain a first instance of a CAD model, the CAD model including a feature tree having a plurality of continuous CAD parameters, the CAD model further including a set of one or more parameterization constraints which specifies the one or more mechanical functionalities, the first instance including a first value for each continuous CAD parameter,
• obtain a mesh representing a target boundary shape of the manufacturing product, and
• determine a second instance of the CAD model from the first instance of the CAD model, the second instance including a second value for each continuous CAD parameter, the determining of the second instance consisting of computing the second values by modifying at least part of the first values, to minimize a shape dissimilarity metric between a boundary shape represented by the first instance of the CAD model and the target boundary shape.