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System and method for creating a build set and bill of materials from a master source model

  • US 8,452,674 B2
  • Filed: 06/14/2010
  • Issued: 05/28/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A build set processor for creating a solved build set comprising:

  • a model copier copying a master source model including a set of said computer-aided design (CAD) objects and determining which of said set of said CAD objects has associated option strings;

    a box option processor applying user selected option values to each of said associated option strings with each of the determined CAD objects;

    an option string processor logically evaluating each of said associated option strings;

    a CAD object manipulator manipulating each of the determined CAD objects based on the associated logically evaluated option string evaluating to “

    true”

    ;

    a build set creator saving the manipulated determined CAD objects in said build set; and

    a bill of materials (BOM) processor comprising;

    a package creator creating a package for each CAD object in the set of CAD objects, wherein said package includes at least one quantity of materials and at least one BOM rule;

    a user interface receiving a selection of a section of the build set;

    a package processor collecting CAD objects from the selected section, determining said packages associated with the CAD objects from the selected section, and determining quantities of materials associated with said packages;

    a rule processor applying said at least one BOM rule to determine said build set materials from the determined quantities of materials,a building material processor merging similar of said build set materials to form a material list and associated quantities and remove said build set materials that have a zero value for associated quantities from a material list; and

    a BOM creator applying a rounding rule associated with said package to said associated quantities, and creating a BOM from the rounded associated quantities and material list.

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