Patent ID: 8351715

Claim:
A process for compressing, translating and storing solid-state model data for one or more parts that form a solid-state model, comprising: extracting the solid-state model data; compressing and translating geometric data of the solid-state model data to generate one or more assembly components, one or more part components and one or more surface components; storing each of the one or more assembly components, each of one or more part components and each of the one or more surface components into a single file; generating a transformation matrix for a newly generated assembly component, a newly generated part component, or a newly generated surface component that is sufficiently similar to a previously generated assembly component, a previously generated part component, or a previously generated surface component; and storing the transformation matrix into the single file in place of the newly generated assembly component, the newly generated part component, or the newly generated surface component, wherein a portion of the geometric data is translated into a model component using a blueprint compression process that includes: translating a first one of a plurality of geometric data points from a double precision format into a blueprint compression format; and translating a second one of the plurality of geometric data points from a double precision format into a blueprint compression format, wherein translating the second one of the plurality of dimensional data points includes determining a difference between a magnitude of the second one of the plurality of dimensional data points and a magnitude of the first one of the plurality of dimensional data points, and wherein the second one of the plurality of dimensional data points immediately precedes or follows the first one of the plurality of dimensional data points if the plurality of dimensional data points are sorted by magnitude.