SBIR/STTR Research Award
MISSILE GEOMETRY PACKAGE
Award amount
$50,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1988Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- Concept Analysis Corp
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
CONCEPT ANALYSIS CORPORATION (CAC) PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A COMPUTERAIDED DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING (CADCAM) - BASED MISSILE GEOMETRY PACKAGE. THE CURRENT PROCESS OF PRODUCING THREE-DIMENSIONAL DESCRIPTIONS OF MISSILE SYSTEMS AND UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES IS TIMECONSUMING AND NEEDS TO BE AUTOMATED. CAC MARKETS A GENERAL-PURPOSE CADCAM SYSTEM, CADCEPT. CAC PROPOSES TO TAILOR CADCEPT BY ADDING CUSTOM FEATURES FOR PARAMETRIC DESIGN OF COMMON GEOMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS FOUND IN MISSILE SYSTEMS AND UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES. INPUT WILL BE MACHINE-INTELLIGENT DATA ACQUISITIN FROM DRAWINGS OR 3D MODELS, OR GRAPHICS TERMINAL DESIGN ALONE, OR COMBINATIONS THEREOF. OUTPUT WILL BE CUSTOMIZED TO CUSTOMER NEEDS. EXAMPLES CAN BE AS VARIED AS DRAFTING MACHINES AND PLOTTERS, 3D DISPLAYS (STEREOGRAPHICS), OR CONTROL FILES FOR CNC MILLING AND FABRICATING MACHINES. MODELS AND OTHER FORMS OF PHYSICAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL DESCRIPTIONS CAN BE FABRICATED FROM DESIGN DATA, WITH DRAWINGS AS OPTIONAL INPUT.
Technology keywords
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