Autodesk (ADSK) USPTO patents

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for designing lattice structures for heat dissipating devices include a method including: obtaining a 3D model of a device that passes a fluid through an internal structure of the device, including a lattice for the internal structure; performing computational fluid dynamics simulation using the 3D model to generate fluid turbulence data that indicates fluid flows through the lattice for the internal structure; modifying a first density in accordance with the fluid turbulence data; performing computational structural simulation using the 3D model and defined loading condition(s) for the device to generate structural integrity data that indicates a structural weakness of the device; modifying a second density in accordance with the structural integrity data; and providing the 3D model of the device, the 3D model including the modified first density and the modified second density.

In various embodiments, a visualization engine generates graphs that facilitate sense making operations on data sets.

In various embodiments, a dataset generation application generates a new dataset based on an original dataset.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures using generative design processes.

A system and method provide the ability to control an architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) project workflow.

In various embodiments, a stylization subsystem automatically modifies a three-dimensional (3D) object design.

A centralized design engine receives a problem specification from an end-user and classifies that problem specification in a large database of previously received problem specifications.

One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for controlling the execution of a physical process.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures using techniques that facilitate manufacturing, include: modifying a three dimensional shape, for which a corresponding physical structure is to be created using a manufacturing process, to produce a modified three dimensional shape; and providing the modified shape of the modeled object for use in manufacturing the physical structure using one or more computer-controlled manufacturing systems that employ the manufacturing process.

Embodiments of the invention provide the ability to track document versioning.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for working with three-dimensional object models for printing.

A workstation enables operation of a 2D input device with a 3D interface.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures using generative design processes, A method includes obtaining, by a computer aided design program, a design space for a modeled object, one or more design criteria for the modeled object, one or more in-use load cases, and a critical fatigue crack length for a material from which A physical structure will be manufactured; iteratively modifying a generatively designed three dimensional shape of the modeled object in the design space in accordance with the critical fatigue crack length for the material, wherein the iteratively modifying comprises enforcing a design criterion that limits a minimum thickness of the generatively designed three dimensional shape, the minimum thickness being based on the critical fatigue crack length for the material.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for automatic generation of probe path for surface inspection and part alignment.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures using generative design processes, where the three dimensional (3D) models of the physical structures are produced in accordance with a design criterion that limits a minimum thickness of the generatively designed 3D models, include: obtaining a design space for an object to be manufactured and one or more design criteria including a thickness constraint; iteratively modifying a generatively designed 3D shape of the modeled object in the design space in accordance with the one or more design criteria, including measuring a current thickness for the 3D shape using an overall relationship of a volume of the 3D shape with respect to a surface area of the 3D shape; and providing the generatively designed model for use in manufacturing the physical structure using one or more computer-controlled manufacturing systems.

One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for facilitating the learning of a new software application.

An authoring platform for authoring a client workflow includes an arrangement of shapes representing steps and connections representing relationships between the steps.

A method and system provide the ability to asynchronously collaborate on a model of an infrastructure project.

A computer-implemented method for space frame design involves constructing a load stress map in a geometrical boundary representation of a design space, defining attachment points and load application points in the design space, creating a starting network of interconnecting lines between each two of the attachment points and load application points in the design space, assigning load application factors to each line of the starting network of interconnecting lines based on values of the load stress map, generating potential space frame designs by culling different subsets of lines of the starting network of interconnecting lines for each potential space frame design according to variable culling parameters, evaluating the potential space frame designs with respect to optimization parameters, combining the culling parameters for the potential space frame designs the performance score of which is above a predefined performance threshold, and iterating the steps of generating potential space frame designs and evaluating the potential space frame designs on the basis of the combined culling parameters.

A method, system, and article of manufacture provide for multi-user collaboration on a three-dimensional (3D) design.