Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1997-06-26
2000-03-07
Lee, Thomas C.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
36447421, 36447424, G06F 1900
Patent
active
RE0366021
ABSTRACT:
A computer-based engineering design system to design a part, a tool to make the part, and the process to make the part. The design system has a processor and a memory. The memory stores feature templates, each feature template being a representation of a primitive object having a form and a function. Each feature template is indexed by the function of the primitive object and includes a representation of a primitive geometric entity having the form of the primitive object. Each feature template can include information relating to a tool to make the primitive object and a process to make the primitive object. The design system also includes an input device for receiving a request to design the part. This request includes one or more predetermined functions that the part performs. A core design module, executable by the processor, designs the part, the tool to make the part and process to make the part by accessing the plurality of feature templates in the memory to locate one or more primitive objects that perform the one or more predetermined functions.
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Kniep David
Kolodzieski Scott
Manoochehri Souran
Muthuswamy Sivakumar
Pratt Steven
Brown Thomas E.
Lee Thomas C.
The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology
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