Patent ID: 11947877
Assignee: SIEMENS INDUSTRY SOFTWARE INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions, that when executed by a processor, cause a computer-aided design (CAD) system to:
maintain a CAD model that represents a physical object;
set an anti-constraint for a component of the CAD model, the anti-constraint specifying a given constraint not to be applied for the component of the CAD model;
identify a user modification to the CAD model that impacts the component; and
update the component in connection with the user modification without applying the given constraint specified in the anti-constraint, including by:
identifying a candidate update to the component that includes the given constraint; and
determining not to apply the candidate update to the component in connection with the user modification to the CAD model.