Inventors:
George Petrescu - Houston TX, US
James Edd Wheeler - Houston TX, US
Assignee:
Furmanite Worldwide, Inc. - Richardson TX
International Classification:
G01B 21/20, G06F 15/00
Abstract:
Systems, processes, articles of manufacture, and techniques may be used to determine a machining shape for a surface to be machined. In particular implementations, determining a machining shape may include retrieving stored surface measurements for a surface to be machined, the measurements representing the surface at a plurality of points for each of a number of measurement locations on the surface, and analyzing the measurements to determine a shape to which the surface should be machined. Determining a machining shape may also include determining the surface that may be achieved by machining to the determined shape, analyzing the determined surface to determine whether it is acceptable, and storing the determined shape based on whether the determined surface is acceptable.