Geometrically watertight unstructured splines applied to CAD, CAE, CAM, and CAI for a design-through-manufacturing digital thread
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Jennings, Ryan↗
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Jennings, Ryan
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Watertight Tensor-Product Spline Reconstruction (KCNSC PDRD Technical Report)
The standard for representing geometric models in Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems is boundary representation with trimmed surfaces. However, the approximate nature of surface-surface intersections in CAD systems leaves many small gaps between mating surfaces. These gaps lead to problems for downstream analysis and manufacturing applications, requiring time consuming repair operations and further approximation of the geometry as polygonal meshes, which do not support design iteration. In this study, nVariate, Inc. evaluated its watertight reconstruction technology on a test part. The resulting watertight model has the same absolute model accuracy of the original model zero gaps, providing a representation that requires no repair and supports further design iterations in the CAD system.
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Using the SWAT Method for Reconstructing Forces on a Drop Shock Table to Better Inform Finite Element Simulations.
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Ferri, Brian Anthony↗