Abstract: A system that renders computer-aided design (CAD) models of a part, an assembly, or both includes identifying a deficient CAD model missing expected Product and Manufacturing Information (PMI) objects, based upon features not being associated with the missing expected PMI objects. The system also includes querying a database of existing CAD models to identify existing PMI objects, including a PMI reference indicating a particular type of PMI data and PMI annotation to use for the missing expected PMI objects, of a reference CAD model. The system also includes attributing a subset of the existing PMI objects to features of the deficient CAD model, by identifying features that the subset of the existing PMI objects are associated to and identifying corresponding features in features of the deficient CAD model, and assigning the subset of the existing PMI objects to the corresponding features in the of the deficient CAD model.

Abstract: An inverse design machine for making a manufactured article that includes a designer Impact-mitigating architectured isotropic structure includes: an input unit that receives a primary structure; a primary structure analyzer that receives the primary structure from the input unit and determines primary properties of the primary structure; a structure adjuster that receives the primary properties from the primary structure analyzer, receives impact-mitigating properties from a structural property manager, and produces the designer Impact-mitigating architectured isotropic structure from the impact-mitigating properties; and the structural property manager that provides the impact-mitigating properties to the structure adjuster.

Abstract: A method of operating a computer aided design (CAD) system model for modelling an article to be manufactured includes receiving a representation of the article, receiving constraints for the article, determining a maximum permissible curvature of one or more parts of the article, measuring the maximum curvature of the one or more parts of the article in the received representation and comparing the measured maximum curvature with the maximum permissible curvature. If the measured maximum curvature of at least one of the one or more parts exceeds the determined maximum permissible curvature, an error indication is provided. If the measured maximum curvature of each of the one or more parts does not exceed the determined maximum permissible curvature, the received representation for the article is stored.

Abstract: An apparatus includes circuitry configured to calculate first parameters for determining a structure of a first antenna device based on a specification value set for the first antenna device to be a target of performance evaluation, acquire a communication frequency based on first parameters, calculate an allowable range of deviation of the communication frequency satisfying a specified performance evaluation standard of the first antenna device, determine a structure of a second antenna device as a reference model, and obtain a change amount corresponding to change in the communication frequency in the allowable range of two second parameters having a correlation with each other, and acquire a relational expression of two first parameters of first parameters that correspond to the two second parameters and that have a correlation with each other, and two first parameters based on the change amount and that have the correlation with each other.

Abstract: A computational method for simulating the motion of elements within a multi-element system using a neural network force field (NNFF). The method includes receiving a combination of a number of rotationally-invariant features and a number of rotationally-covariant features of a local environment of the multi-element system; and predicting a force vector for each element within the multi-element system based on the combination of the number of rotationally-invariant features, the number of rotationally-covariant features, and the NNFF, to obtain a simulated motion of the elements within the multi-element system.

Abstract: A parametric design method for a fan coil unit based on BIM (Building Information Modeling) includes steps of: determining a basic sample; parametrically modeling; setting pipe connection locations and connection sizes of a two-pipe fan coil and a four-pipe fan coil; setting component visibility; completing control settings of left-right one-click selection for the fan coil; arranging an air pipe behind an air outlet of the fan coil; producing air duct flexible connectors; producing diffusers; adding parameter controls of a “yes or no” type to a return air box, a lower return air flange, and a back to return air flange; completing production of pipes and connectors, and naming. In a heating and ventilation BIM design of building engineering, with the above method, efficiencies of designing, modeling and plotting are obviously increased.

Abstract: A learning method and an automatic layout design method are disclosed. In one embodiment, provided is a learning method implementable by an apparatus for a system performing a layout design for automatically determining layout positions of a plurality of layout objects to be placed in a layout space by virtually moving the plurality of layout objects in the layout space based on a relationship between states of the plurality of layout objects in the layout space and movements of the plurality of layout objects to be performed, the method comprising: virtually moving a plurality of first layout objects in the layout space, determining a reward depending on whether or not the plurality of first layout objects interfere with another object in the layout space, and performing a learning process for learning the relationship through machine learning based on the reward.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method for optimizing building design, construction and operation by tracking post-construction operational data, along with design and construction data. The system addresses the energy performance gap associated with modern construction.

Abstract: This invention proposes the aerodynamic designing method for the central section of small size gas turbine engine type and it includes the following 8 steps: 1st step: checking to confirm if compressor outlet air meets demand specified by the central section; 2nd step: estimating the inner casing diameter based on practical experience; 3rd step: estimating the outer casing diameter; 4th step: estimating the combustor dome height and combustor length; 4th step: estimating the combustor dome height and combustor length; 5th step: estimating the combustor inner and outer liner diameters; 6th step: estimating the exit inner and exit outer diameters of the pre-diffuser; 7th step: estimating the dump gap; 8th step: verifying rotordynamic properties to determine if the shaft diameter assumption starting in the 2nd step is good enough.

Abstract: An apparatus for designing a structural product includes memory to store computer-readable program code for an integrated development environment to establish a digital thread in a lifecycle of the structural product, and processing circuitry to execute the computer-readable program code. The apparatus is thereby caused to generate a graphical user interface from which the integrated development environment is accessible to cause the apparatus to generate an electromagnetic effects (EME) model of the structural product from authoritative data including a solid model of the structural product, and parameterize the EME model with one or more electrical properties. The apparatus is caused to produce a computational electromagnetics (CEM) model of the structural product from the parameterized EME model, perform a CEM analysis from the CEM model to generate a corresponding solution is generated, and post-process the corresponding solution.

Abstract: A method of arranging a plurality of lighting fixtures in a room or on an object includes the steps of: (a) producing a virtual model of the room or the object in or on which the lighting fixtures are to be placed; (b) virtually arranging the lighting fixtures on the virtual model; (c) identifying one or more guide lighting fixtures in the virtual arrangement, based on one or more predetermined positions; (d) generating a sequence of actuation of the lighting fixtures, which actuates at least the guide lighting fixtures; and (e) arranging the lighting fixtures so that at least the position of the guide lighting fixtures coincides with the position thereof at steps (b) and (c).

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for revising structural parameters of a physical device is provided. The method comprises configuring a simulated environment to be representative of the physical device based on an initial description that describes structural parameters of the physical device. The method further includes performing an operational simulation of the physical device based on training data representative of physical stimuli within a physical domain to simulate an interaction between the physical device and the physical stimuli. The method further includes computing a loss value based on a simulated output of the physical device and performing and adjoint simulation by backpropagating the loss value through the simulated environment. The method also includes generating a revised description of the physical device by updating the structural parameters to reduce the loss value.

Abstract: Systems and methods for extracting data from a 2D floor plan and retaining it in a building information model are disclosed. The system may include at least one processor configured to perform operations that may include accessing a 2D floor plan demarcating a plurality of rooms. Operations may include identifying, using a machine learning model, wall boundaries of the plurality of rooms. Operations may include storing the identified wall boundaries in a retention data structure. Operations may include generating a building information model, wherein the building information model includes the identified wall boundaries. Operations may include displaying, at an interface, a comparison of at least a portion of the 2D floor plan and the building information model. Operations may include receiving, from the interface, input based on the comparison. Operations may include updating the retention data structure based on the input.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to space model generation. A computing platform may receive space program data identifying parameters of a physical space. The computing platform may load a geometry model defining a plurality of design rules. The computing platform may generate space models for the physical space based on the space program data and the geometry model. Based on the geometry model, the computing platform may produce a score for each space model. Based on the scores, the computing platform may produce a ranked list of space models. The computing platform may generate user interface data comprising the ranked list of space models. The computing platform may send the user interface data comprising the ranked list of space models, which may cause a user computing device to display a user interface including a portion of the ranked list of space models.

Abstract: A system and method for generating a parametric model of a roof structure comprising a processor in communication with a memory. The system receives a plurality of parameters of each roof component composing the roof structure and performs a geometry creation based on the received plurality of parameters. The system generates a constrained three-dimensional geometry based on an output of the geometry creation, and displays a three-dimensional model of the roof structure based on the constrained three-dimensional geometry.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for managing a composite structure. A set of component models is created for a set of components in the composite structure. A set of embedded reinforcement element models is placed within the set of component models for the set of components in the composite structure to form a composite structure model for the composite structure. The set of embedded reinforcement element models is for a set of embedded reinforcements embedded within the set of components in the composite structure. A structural analysis of the composite structure is performed using the composite structure model formed by the set of component models and the set of embedded reinforcement element models, wherein the set of embedded reinforcement element models enables modeling at least one of a deformation or a failure of embedded reinforcements.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for constructing structures using beams bounded by quadric surfaces of revolution includes generating a quador beam within a computer-aided design (CAD) tool. The quador beam comprises two spheres at opposing endpoints, and the beam is bounded by a quadric surface of revolution around an axis of symmetry joining the center of the two spheres. The quadric surface of revolution abuts with tangent continuity with the surface of each of the spheres. Once generated, the quador beam can be visualized in the CAD tool or another display medium.

Abstract: The disclosed techniques relate to validating and optimizing a quantum computing simulator. A quantum computing simulator executes a quantum executable file to obtain a first result. A second result is received from a quantum computer which also computes the quantum executable file. The hardware metadata associated with the quantum computer, and defining hardware conditions during a time in which the quantum executable file was executed to create the second result, is also received. In response to determining a difference between the first result and the second result, updated hardware metadata is created based on the received hardware metadata associated with the quantum computer. The quantum computing simulator performs a second execution of the quantum executable file based at least in part on the updated hardware metadata to obtain a third result.

Abstract: A production plan supporting apparatus and method capable of effectively supporting making of a production plan for a product whose production process has a branch(es). According to the production plan supporting apparatus and method when sequentially inputting a work(s) on a production unit basis to a production process in accordance with a predetermined input plan, first models regarding each of which probability of existence of the work in each time slot of each process is calculated are generated for respective production units, and a second model in which all the generated first models for the respective production units are stacked over one another is generated; and the time slot of the process which will become a bottleneck is identified and displayed on the basis of the second model.

Abstract: A methods and computer systems can automatically identify and fill gaps in a computer aided design. One method includes identifying a first set of points on a first solid in a CAD design. The method includes identifying a second set of points on the second solid in the CAD design. The method also includes determining a volume of the gap between the first solid and the second solid based on a Delaunay tetrahedralization of the first set of points and the second set of points.