I dunno. Either there's something subtle going on here that I'm not getting, in which you're probably safe unless you're actually using their code; or there is

I dunno. Either there's something subtle going on here that I'm not getting, in which you're probably safe unless you're actually using their code; or there is loads of prior art on this idea. I worked on HyperMesh [1] in the mid-1990s, and while it wasn't my area of the code, we had a heavy focus on automatic mesh generation from geometric surface data. All this patent sounds like is applying the simpler bits of those techniques to meshes which had already been generated. (We had a ton of tools for that as well, but maybe none so automatic as what they are describing here?) Of course, this being the world of software patents, none of what I've said indicates you cannot get seriously screwed by this patent... [1] http://www.altairhyperworks.com/Product,7,HyperMesh.aspx http://www.altairhyperworks.com/Product,7,HyperMesh.aspx