Part design using manufacturing features

✍ Scribed by Samuel P. Owusu-Ofori

• Book ID: 104631446
• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 759 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0956-5515
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00124687

✦ Synopsis

This paper presents a methodology by which manufacturability data is used to drive the design process. The system allows a designer to determine the features to be considered. He provides the basic geometric parameters for each feature and passes them to the modeling system for instantiations. Tolerances and surface finish allow the system to derive manufacturing implications used by the designer to review the design. The physical parameters, in addition to the processing information, lead to an integrated model which may be used by both the designer and the manufacturing personnel. This procedure may be invoked at any level of the design process and contribute to a final manufacturable design. The philosophy employed in the development of this work is to define manufacturing features as instances of generic ones with specific properties and processing methods. The design features obtain their geometric superclasses from a commercially available package of solid primitives thus allowing for the part to be graphically displayed.