A CAD system development for pipe and cable planning

Author

Liu, Qiang ; Xu, Ruqin ; Liu, Xiaoqin

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. & Control Eng., Liaoning Shihua Univ., Fushun, China

Volume

2

fYear

2012

fDate

20-21 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

131

Lastpage

133

Abstract

This paper designs and develops a pipe planning CAD system based on MATLAB and UG software. The geometric information of planning space and terminals are extracted by using UG/Open GRIP. The pipe and cable path planning is conducted using some existing automatic routing algorithms in a MATLAB system, and then the final computation results are transferred back to the UG system for visualization of pipe layouts. The date transmission between MATLAB and UG systems are implemented by TXT text files. By using this system, academic researchers and practitioners in pipe engineering areas can efficiently implement and demonstrate various designed routing algorithms.

Keywords

CAD; cables (mechanical); data visualisation; mechanical engineering computing; path planning; pipes; CAD system development; MATLAB system; UG software; UG/Open GRIP; automatic routing algorithm; cable path planning; geometric information; pipe engineering; pipe layout visualization; pipe planning CAD system; space planning; terminal planning; Algorithm design and analysis; Layout; MATLAB; Planning; Routing; Software algorithms; Visualization; CAD; cable; pipe; planning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Science, Engineering Design and Manufacturing Informatization (ICSEM), 2012 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0914-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSSEM.2012.6340826

Filename

6340826