Method and System for Qualifying CAD Objects
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Abstract
A method and a system for automatically qualifying CAD objects in two different CAx systems, wherein the CAD objects each model components of a physical system. In order to automatically qualify CAD objects in the CAx systems, which describe the same system components, with the same data records, a universal mapping rule is initially determined using system components that are qualified with data records in both CAx systems. The mapping rule is then applied to CAD objects that are qualified with a data records only in one CAx system to respectively identify a CAD object in the other CAx system, where the CAD object represents the same system component and is therefore supposed to be qualified with the same data record.
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21. A method for automatically identifying a first computer aided design (CAD) object within a first n-dimensional computer aided (CAx) system and for automatically assigning a data record to the first CAD object, the first CAD object representing a component which is already represented in a second, m-dimensional CAx system by a second CAD object and which is already assigned the data record within the second CAx system, the method comprising:
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determining m further components, each of said m further components being assigned a further first CAD object in the first CAx system with a further data record and a further second CAD object in the second CAx system with the same further data record; defining a universal unambiguous mapping rule, which for each of the m further components, maps a point of the further second CAD object onto a point of an associated first further CAD object; applying the unambiguous mapping rule to a second point of the second CAD object to define a first point and to identify a target object having the first point as the first CAD object; and assigning the data record to the first CAD object. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A system for automatically identifying a first computer aided design (CAD) object within a first n-dimensional computer aided (CAx) system and for automatically assigning a data record to the first CAD object, the first CAD object representing a component which is already represented in a second, m-dimensional CAx system by a second CAD object and which is already assigned the data record within the second CAx system, the system comprising:
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means for determining m further components, each of said m further components being assigned a further first CAD object in the first CAx system with a further data record and a further second CAD object in the second CAx system with the same further data record; means for defining a universal, unambiguous mapping rule, which for each of the m further components, maps a point of the further second CAD object onto a point of an associated first further CAD object; means for applying the unambiguous mapping rule to a second point of the second CAD object to define a first point and to identify a target object having the first point as the first CAD object; and means for assigning the data record to the first CAD object. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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