Patent ID: 8014886

Claim:
A method for generating a configuration of an assembly from a design layout including a geometric representation of a part of the assembly and a bill of material including a part reference and a part address for the part of the assembly, the method comprising: mapping the geometric representation of the part to the part reference from the bill of material; generating positioned geometric representations of the part based on the mapping of the geometric representation of the part to the part reference; identifying a logical position associated with the part based on the part address from the bill of material via a part address to logical position table; mapping the positioned geometric representations of the part to the logical position based on logical position zones; identifying a plurality of feature conditions based on the part reference and the part address; and mapping each of the positioned geometric representations of the part to one of the feature conditions to generate, via one or more computers, a configuration of the assembly from the design layout and bill of material.