ADSK Autodesk Dashboard

Systems and methods are presented for allowing multiple users to collaboratively edit 3-D assets in real-time, using a distributed 3-D editing/rendering software application.

One embodiment of the invention is a slicing engine that generates two or more slices of a virtual 3D model given a slice plane.

A design engine automates portions of a mechanical assembly design process.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures include: obtaining a first 3D model including a polygon mesh associated with one or more modelled solids, the one or more modelled solids being in a boundary representation format; producing from the polygon mesh a quad patch network that combines, using transfinite interpolation, the polygon mesh with one or more smooth boundary curves corresponding to the one or more modelled solids; defining one or more locally refinable smooth surface representations using the quad patch network as input and based at least in part on a smallest dimension representable by a geometry modeling kernel of a computer aided design program; and combining the one or more locally refinable smooth surface representations with the one or more modelled solids to form a second 3D model that is watertight at the one or more smooth boundary curves.

A method, apparatus, and system provide the ability to conduct a dynamic simulation in a computer-aided design (CAD) application.