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AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsWilliam M. Behan, Tracy L. Bagwill
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A system and method provides data for a laser projection process used in manufacturing involving fasteners. For example, the laser projection process may include projecting a laser image associated with fasteners used to assemble objects. Fastener attribute data may be extracted from an engineer's design data and processed to generate a laser projection output file. This output file may include geometric data used to project a laser image associated with the fasteners. For example, this image may be an outline indicating the location, shape, and orientation of a fastener. The output file may also include non-geometric data associated with attributes of the objects to be assembled. Both the geometric and the non-geometric data can then be displayed in a user interface, such as a display screen of a laser projector control device, in addition to the display of the laser image in three-dimensional space.
A method for providing data for a laser projection process used in manufacturing, wherein the laser projection process includes projecting a laser image associated with objects to be assembled using one or more fasteners, the method comprising:
The method of claim I wherein the laser image further includes geometry relating to a shape of the retention feature associated with the one or more fasteners.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.