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

  • US 8,712,876 B2
  • Filed: 02/03/2012
  • Issued: 04/29/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for creating a build set and a bill of materials, said system comprising:

  • a bill of materials (BOM) processor comprising;

    a package creator processor creating a package for each computer-aided design (CAD) object, wherein said package includes at least one quantity of materials and at least one BOM rule;

    a user interface configured for execution by the BOM processor for receiving a selection of a section of a build set;

    a build set processor including a model copier copying a master source model including a set of said CAD objects from said selected section of the build set;

    a package processor collecting the set of said CAD objects, determining said packages associated with the set of said CAD objects, 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 removing said build set materials that have a zero value for associated quantities from the formed material list; and

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

    an option string processor configured for;

    determining which of said set of said CAD objects has associated option strings;

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

    logically evaluating each of said associated option strings; and

    a CAD object manipulator for manipulating each of the determined CAD objects based on the associated logically evaluated option string and saving the manipulated determined CAD objects in said build set.

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