Development and Implementation of an Integrated Design and Manufacturing System

Abstract

This study describes the development and implementation of a feature-based integrated design and manufacturing (IDM) system for machined-part modeling and manufacturability evaluation. Manufacturing information about the part model is deduced in terms of feature attributes and feature relations using spatial geometric reasoning, which in turn, is used for conducting an automated manufacturability evaluation of the part model. Previous works relating to feature relations are fragmented. In this study, attempts have been made to formalize the study of feature relations. The IDM system is implemented on a SunSparc 20 workstation using the C++ programming language. The IDM system employs ACIS v1.7 as the geometric modeler and uses advanced routine functions provided by 3D Toolkit v1.3. The graphical user interface (GUI) is developed using MOTIF.

Department(s)

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Keywords and Phrases

CAD/CAM; DFM; Feature-based design; Manufacturability evaluation

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1943-670X; 1072-4761

Document Type

Article - Journal

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2024 The Authors, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 1998

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