Method of automatically configuring arrangements of components and automatically generating production documents

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A method of automatically defining the spatial arrangement of structural components and optimizing the functional positions and/or quantities thereof is useful for design and production of an aircraft cabin. The basic aircraft type is input into a configuration tool of a data processing system. The aircraftspecific geometry is stored in, loaded from and represented by a drawing module of the system. The required components are geometrically defined by stored data and position rules and are, combined with the aircraft-specific geometry in the drawing module. The components and the aircraft-specific geometry are spatially optimally configured relative to each other according to a rule set …