System and method of interactively assembling a model

A method for interactively assembling a geometric mesh model that automatically complies with predetermined guidelines associated with a vehicular safety-related computer aided engineering analysis that predicts mechanical behaviors of the geometiic mesh model, using a computer system, said method comprising the steps of:

• selecting a plurality of individual component parts by the user using the computer system, wherein each individual component part is a geometric mesh model that complies with corresponding predetermined guidelines associated with the vehicular safety-related computer aided engineering analysis of the mechanical behaviors of the assembled geometric mesh model, and is selected from a component parts library containing the geometric mesh model for each of the individual component parts, that is in communication with the computer system;
• selecting a vehicular safety-related physical property for each of the selected individual component parts by a user, wherein the vehicular safety-related physical property is selected from a knowledge-based engineering library of vehicular safety-related physical properties, that is stored on a data storage means in communication with the computer system using, a corresponding predetermined rule for defining the physical property associated with the vehicle safety-related computer aided engineering analysis;
• checking if the geometric mesh model for each of the selected individual component parts meets a predetermined geometric mesh model quality condition using a corresponding predetermined mesh model guideline associated with the vehicular safety-related computer-aided engineering analysis, by comparing a mesh model format for each of the selected individual component parts to the predetermined geometric mesh model quality condition and modifying the mesh model format for each of the selected individual component parts that do not meet the predetermined geometric mesh model quality condition;
• selecting a connecting means for connecting adjoining individual component parts by a user, wherein the connecting means corresponding to each of the adjoining individual component parts is selected from a knowledge-based engineering library of predetermined geometric mesh models of connecting means for the vehicular safety-related computer aided engineering analysis of the mechanical behaviors of the assembled safety related geometric mesh model, that is stored in a data storage means in communication with the computer system, using a corresponding predetermined rule for defining the connecting means associated with the vehicular safety-related computer aided engineering analysis of the mechanical behavior of the assembled safety-related geometric mesh model;
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• assembling the checked geometric mesh model for each of the selected individual component parts, the selected connecting means geometric mesh model corresponding to each of the selected adjoining individual component parts and the selected vehicular safety-related physical property for each of the selected individual component parts into a safety-related geometric mesh model that automatically complies with the predetermined guidelines associated with the vehicular safety-related computer-aided engineering analysis and the assembled safety-related geometric mesh model is used by the vehicular safety-related computer aided engineering analysis to predict a mechanical behavior of the assembled safety-related geometric mesh model in a predetermined vehicle safety test computer simulation.