INTACT SOLUTIONS INC. SBIR Phase I Award, January 2018

The goal of this SBIR project is to demonstrate a general and scalable plug-and-play query-based solution to CAD-CAE and CAE-CAE interoperability problems. The approach is based on the following two observations: (1) the geometric, topological, and material information in any CAD model may be abstracted by a finite collection of queries -- formally defined and algorithmically implemented computable functions -- that eliminate the need for preprocessing, conversion and transfer of CAD models; (2) Most of CAE interoperability challenges reduce to the need to allocate and sample basis functions and their derivatives over geometric domain and its boundary that are already represented unambiguously in every CAD system.