Computing engineering design framework method and system

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and software for creating an engineering design using a computing framework. Software, particularly but not exclusively involved, is to enable professionals, including designers and engineers, and non-professionals to construct an entire engineering design from digital modular components and features in order to create designs and design models for physical objects and structures, such as, including but not limited to, geometric models and / or thermodynamic models. The method can be implemented relatively quickly, easily and substantially accurately, and can achieve higher complexity designs that may be implemented with conventional methods. Various aspects and / or embodiments seek to provide a method and system enabling professionals and non-professionals to design a substantially dynamic / adaptive system architecture by using a computing framework, cAD models, design drawings, and other engineering information for design / architecture, such as semantics, geometry, thermodynamics, or electrical (and others), can be generated, and a user may be allowed to explore the entire design space. Various aspects and / or embodiments may also seek to provide professionals and non-professionals to describe an engineering process using a computing framework such that it executes to automatically and repeatedly generate a final design.

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technical field [0001] This disclosure relates to methods and software for creating engineering designs using computational frameworks, and in particular, but not exclusively, to software for enabling professionals, including designers and engineers, as well as non-professionals to digitally modularize components and features Structuring an entire engineering design to create designs and design models for physical objects and structures, for example, including but not limited to any or any combination of geometric and / or thermodynamic models (among other types of models), relatively quickly and easily and substantially accurately, and enables higher complexity designs possible with traditional methods. Background technique [0002] Engineering design is a complex process that requires teams of engineers and designers to first prepare specifications for complex products and schemes, then prepare one or more conceptual designs, and finally generate one or more sets of detailed...

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Problems solved by technology

Although CAD software has replaced the physical drawing of engineering drawings and design documents with a process that can be executed on a computer, reducing the cost and time of producing and editing design documents, the entire set of tools and technologies is fragmented, so a lot of time and Costs are spent on acquiring these tools, learning these tools and techniques, and thus time is wasted on inefficiencies in learning, combining and using these tools and techniques

[0014] Furthermore, any optionally generated CAD design is only a systematic illustration, often without any full semantic meaning, without even attempting to fully detail any aspect of the design other than geometric features

[0015] A well-known problem is that design capabilities in many industries are limited to using the iterative design process described above, and semantic information must be manually / inefficiently passed between tools, models, and / or people during the design process

Furthermore, current approaches often produce suboptimal, or unexpected but feasible designs or solutions

In addition, cost, size and geometric models are usually generated empirically and thus do not have a clear directed relationship to the parameters or properties of the product or scheme being designed, e.g. internal thermodynamic properties or functions may be taken into account but selected Functionally related design aspects do not warrant any directly attributable link between the design process and the original requirements

[0016] Although attempts are being made to build computer-augmented design processes such as "Generative design" software, but these processes are limited in scope and often restrict the user to select one of many computer-designed outputs from user-input constraints

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