Interactive systems and methods are provided for designing and constructing fences or other structures supported by posts, including methods which enable users to design custom fence panels and be presented with dynamic visual representations of such custom fence panels.

A tool allows a user to create new designs for apparel and preview these designs in three dimensions before manufacture. Software and lasers are used in finishing apparel to produce a desired wear pattern or other design. Based on a laser input file with a pattern, a laser will burn the pattern onto apparel. With the tool, the user will be able to create, make changes, and view images of a design, in real time, before burning by a laser. Input to the tool includes fabric template images, laser input files, and damage input. The tool allows adding of tinting and adjusting of intensity and bright point. The user can also move, rotate, scale, and warp the image input.

Tools and techniques are described to automate line testing when wiring devices (such as equipment and sensors) to controllers. Controllers have access to databases of the devices that are controlled by them, including wiring diagrams and protocols, such that the controller can automatically check that each wire responds correctly to stimulus from the controller. After testing, a reporting device rapidly shows the results of the line testing.

A compensating device for use in ion-based radiotherapy may comprise a disk with a number of protrusions may be placed in a radiation beam to affect the ions in the beam in different ways to create an irradiation field from a broad beam. This is particularly useful in FLASH therapy because of the limited time available or modulating the beam. A method of designing such a compensating device is proposed, comprising the steps of obtaining characteristics of an actual treatment plan comprising at least one beam, determining at least one parameter characteristic of the desired energy modulation of the actual plan by performing a dose calculation of the initial plan and, based on the at least one parameter, computing a shape for each of the plurality of elongated elements to modulate the dose of the delivery beam to mimic the dose of the initial plan per beam.

A smart render design tool includes: (a) a designer side plug-in enabling a designer to generate credentials for a client and associate the credentials with a model for the client, add camera view(s) to the model, select one or more surfaces in the camera view(s) to add in the model, specify one or more materials for each surface of the one or more surfaces of the model, and publish the model including the specified materials for the one or more surfaces of the model; and (b) a client side portal associated with the credentials and the model enabling the client to access the published model using the generated credentials, select desired materials from among the materials specified by the designer for each surface of the published model, and save the desired materials selections of the client for review by the designer using a synchronization function of the designer side plug-in.

In an embodiment, an earphone having a solid earphone body is provided. A first mounting recess is formed in a first end of the earphone body. A first acoustic driver is disposed in the first mounting recess. At least a first sound bore is formed in the solid earphone body. The at least a first sound bore fluidly communicates with the first mounting recess and a first exit port formed at a second end of the earphone body. The second end of the earphone body is configured to be placed in an ear canal of a user. The earphone can be fabricated by a method that includes defining negative spaces for the first acoustic driver and the at least a first sound bore in a virtual model of the earphone body.

Systems, methods, and software for placing, customizing, and pricing part marks for use in one or more part designs that are represented in a computer model. Placement may be performed as a function of particular locations of part designs. Users may customize part marks by determining particular attributes thereof, such as textual content, font, and/or manufacturing method, among others. A user may manipulate a graphical user interface in order to determine various attributes that further define part mark. Pricing may be performed as a function of user-determined attributes and/or data from one or more pricing catalogs.

A processor may receive a building design of the building having one or more design components. A processor may receive, from at least one data collection device, a geographical location with one or more environmental parameters. A processor may simulate a virtual reality environment of the building design in the geographical location interacting with the one or more environmental parameters. A processor may augment the building design to an updated building design. The updated building design may be augmented based on the one or more environmental parameters.

A computer-implemented method that includes generating design load values for a geographical location in response to receiving the geographical location via user identification or entry into a Graphical User Interface (GUI) displayed on a user device. The design load values include a wind speed value, a snow load value, and/or a seismic value. The method includes determining option content to include in a building design option menu to be rendered on the GUI displayed on the user device. The building design option menu includes information fields for each one of one or more building dimension options for a Three-Dimensional (3D) building model and for each one of one or more building accessory options for the 3D building model. The option content includes the one or more building dimension options and/or the one or more building accessory options that meet or exceed the design load values. The method includes determining, in response to receiving selected building dimensions and/or selected building accessories that are identified or entered by the user into the information fields, a price of building materials for the 3D building model that has been modified to include the selected building dimensions and/or the selected building accessories. The method includes causing, in response to the generating of the price of the building materials, the GUI displayed on the user device to indicate the price of the building materials and to render a view of the 3D building model that has been modified to include the selected building dimensions and/or the selected building accessories.

Systems and methods for creating a customizable dummy finite element model for a dummy hardware model. First finite element factor profiles for the dummy hardware model that match certification corridors for the dummy hardware model are identified, a mapping function based on the first finite element factor profiles that allows second finite element model profiles for the dummy hardware model to be interpolated from the first finite element factor profiles is defined, and a customizable dummy finite element model for the dummy hardware model that incorporates the mapping function is generated.