Autodesk (ADSK) USPTO patents

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.

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

In one embodiment of the present invention, an escape hole generator creates escapes holes designed to facilitate removal of support and/or unprinted material generated inside enclosed hollows of three-dimensional (3D) digital models during 3D printing.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design and manufacture of a part by three-dimensional surface pattern generation, include: receiving input identifying (i) a pattern type, (ii) a three-dimensional feature to be used to modify a three-dimensional part, and (iii) a surface of the three-dimensional part being designed; generating varied copies of the three-dimensional feature in a three-dimensional space in which the three-dimensional part is defined, wherein an aspect of the three-dimensional feature varies for at least two of the varied copies of the three-dimensional feature in accordance with a function that is applied for the pattern type, and at least a portion of a range of the function is mapped to the three-dimensional space in accordance with the surface; and rendering a visualization of the varied copies of the three-dimensional feature to a display device presenting a user interface.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for injection molding warp prediction include: obtaining a mold model and measured shrinkage data for at least one material, predicting an amount of warpage for a part manufactured using the mold by computational simulation of an injection molding process, where the computational simulation uses an internal residual stress model for the part that uses calibrated values for both a coefficient of thermal expansion and an elastic modulus and/or a Poisson's ratio of the at least one material, in at least one direction, for at least thermal stress due to cooling and pressure compensation during and/or after a packing phase of the injection molding process, in accordance with the measured shrinkage data for the at least one material, and providing the amount of warpage predicted for the part manufactured using the mold.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design and manufacture of a part by generating a design aspect of a feature of the part with a material specification, include: receiving, by a computer aided design program, selection of a material specification for a part being designed for manufacturing; receiving, by the computer aided design program, input that defines a feature of the part; generating, by the computer aided design program, a design aspect of the feature in accordance with the material specification; and providing, by the computer aided design program, the feature with the design aspect, for facilitating the manufacturing of the part.

A design engine generates a configuration option that includes a specific arrangement of interconnected mechanical elements adhering to one or more design constraints.