Conventionally, manufacturing of molded parts using composite materials has led to poor dimensional accuracy and tensile strength due to improper curing thus resulting in rejection or early/premature failure of composite part. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide simulation-based systems and methods for manufacturing/generating molded parts using reinforced composite materials. The optimized cure cycle is computed for a given component without carrying out numerous experiments. The present disclosure implements multiscale method and surrogate modeling in virtual testing for more accurate and faster manufacturing of molded parts. Process parameters for specified qualities (e.g., minimum residual stresses, minimum deformation, etc.) required for a part are determined along with least process manufacturing time. The resulting optimized time dependent cure cycle for each thermal zone of the heated mold is transferred to a master controller (e.g., system) which controls the entire curing processes with the use of feedback control.

A system and method for predicting porosity defects due to solidification in a process of casting a metal object by calculating a fraction liquid distribution field for a solution domain defined based on a 3D computer model of the metal object and defining a second order, graph-like sub-grid of interconnected feeding units separated by interface areas by finding minima in the fraction liquid distribution field. A change in porosity volume is determined in each of the feeding units by calculating the total volume of metal inflow and outflow between a feeding unit and its adjacent feeding units and calculating metal shrinkage in the feeding units.

A method including: obtaining a part design file of a part; deriving, from the art design file, a central mold design; determining one or more fill points for the central mold design; and attaching one or more mating connectors to the determined one or more fill points to create a modular part mold file.

A method for designing fiber-composite parts in which part performance and manufacturing efficiency can be traded-off against one another to provide an “optimized” design for a desired use case. In some embodiments, the method involves generating an idealized fiber map, wherein the orientation of fibers throughout the prospective part align with the anticipated load conditions throughout the part, and then modifying the idealized fiber map by various fabrication constraints to generate a process-compensated preform map.

Embodiments relate to an aligner breakage solution. A method includes obtaining a digital design of a polymeric aligner for a dental arch of a patient. The polymeric aligner is shaped to apply forces to teeth of the dental arch. The method also includes performing an analysis on the digital design of the polymeric aligner using at least one of a) a trained machine learning model, b) a numerical simulation, c) a geometry evaluator or d) a rules engine. The method may also include determining, based on the analysis, whether the digital design of the polymeric aligner includes probable points of damage, wherein for a probable point of damage there is a threshold probability that breakage, deformation, or warpage will occur. The method may also include, responsive to determining that the digital design of the polymeric aligner comprises probable points of damage, performing corrective actions based on the probable points of damage.

In various embodiments, a stylization subsystem automatically modifies a three-dimensional (3D) object design. In operation, the stylization subsystem generates a simplified quad mesh based on an input triangle mesh that represents the 3D object design, a preferred orientation associated with at least a portion of the input triangle mesh, and mesh complexity constraint(s). The stylization subsystem then converts the simplified quad mesh to a simplified T-spline. Subsequently, the stylization subsystem creases one or more of edges included in the simplified T-spline to generate a stylized T-spline. Notably, the stylized T-spline represents a stylized design that is more convergent with the preferred orientation(s) than the 3D object design. Advantageously, relative to prior art approaches, the stylization subsystem can more efficiently modify the 3D object design to improve overall aesthetics and manufacturability.

A computer-implemented method for analysing measurement data from a measurement of an object to assess whether the object corresponds to a target condition, by the following steps: determining measurement data of a plurality of objects; determining analysis data records from the measurement data, an analysis data record being assigned to one of the objects and having at least one analysis result about the conformity of the assigned object to the target condition; checking, by a user, some of the analysis results; adapting an analysis result if the checking results in a different analysis result about the conformity; and transmitting the adapted analysis data records to a learning algorithm that modifies itself on the basis of the adapted analysis data records, in order to determine analysis data records from additional measurement data of objects; and the steps are carried out one after another or with an at least partial temporal overlap.

The present disclosure provides a method of adjusting a dimension of a molded product. The method includes generating a plurality of adjusted molding conditions comprising an adjusted velocity profile and an adjusted packing pressure profile; conducting, via an injection-molding apparatus, an actual molding to produce a molded product using the adjusted molding conditions if the adjusted molding condition is qualified; determining whether a dimension of the molded product needs to be adjusted; and updating at least one of the adjusted molding conditions if the dimension of the molded product needs to be adjusted.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures include: obtaining a design space, design criteria, and boundary conditions for numerical simulation; defining an application of the boundary conditions to a voxelized mesh, including specifying a distribution of a load to nodes of voxels in the voxelized mesh that correspond to a surface of preserve geometry; and iteratively modifying a generatively designed three dimensional shape in the design space in accordance with the design criteria and a physical response of the modeled object determined by the numerical simulation performed using the application of the boundary conditions to the voxelized mesh, wherein the distribution of the total loading value during determination of the physical response ensures an equivalence between the total loading value and a sum of loading values distributed to the respective nodes of the voxels that correspond to the surface.

A system for setting injection-molding conditions and a method for setting actual molding conditions of an injection-molding machine are disclosed. The system includes a computer and an injection-molding equipment. The computer is configured to simulate, via computer-aided simulation software, a virtual molding using a plurality of design parameters to generate a plurality of provisional molding conditions. The injection-molding equipment is associated with the computer and configured to perform at least one trial molding using the provisional molding conditions to obtain a plurality of intermediate molding conditions. The computer optimizes the provisional molding conditions to obtain actual molding conditions in accordance with the intermediate molding conditions.