Patent ID: 7974719

Claim:
A method for automatic manufacture of an object, the method comprising the steps of: creating, at a computing device, a design model of an object having multiple individual components, at least two of the individual components defining an intersection at which the two components are in contact with one another; receiving, at a programmable logic controller, the design model of the object; storing, at a database unit, the design model received at the programmable logic controller; extracting from the design model a plurality of component dimensions defining a plurality of components of the object; identifying a plurality of intersection and manufacturing parameters which define in part the intersection of the two components; extracting from the design model the intersection and manufacturing parameters; transmitting the intersection and manufacturing parameters and the component dimensions from the programmable logic controller to at least one manufacturing machine; and manufacturing, by means of the at least one manufacturing machine, the components based at least partly on the transmitted component dimensions and the transmitted intersection and manufacturing parameters.