Patent ID: 6996509
Filing Date: 2006-02-07
Classification: B05B,G05B

Abstract:
1. A system for designing a vehicle by enabling dynamic placement of paint spray particles into a flow domain to permit visual observation and alteration of resulting particle trajectories under a computed flow solution over a computer aided design (CAD) model representative of a desired portion of the vehicle represented on a display by a computer having memory, a processor and a user input mechanism associated therewith, said system comprising: spray gun placement code means operable with the user input mechanism to dynamically effect a desired placement of at least one paint spray gun on the display with respect to the desired portion of the CAD model; trajectory determination code means for computing at least one trajectory for a particle stream emanating from the at least one paint spray gun relative to the desired portion of the CAD model for a predetermined set of particle characteristics in a predetermined set of particle external conditions; and trajectory display code means for effecting display of the at least one trajectory with respect to the desired portion of the CAD model.