Title :
Virtual assembly and tolerance analysis for collaborative design
Author :
Liu, Zhenyu ; Tan, Jianrong
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of CAD & CG, Zhejiang Univ., China
Abstract :
Virtual assembly and tolerance analysis are effective tools to avoid assembly conflicts between components designed by different CAD teams during collaborative product design. This paper develops a virtual assembly and tolerance analysis system supporting collaborative product design and puts forward a component model expression method based on assembly ports as well as giving approaches to interactive assembly and tolerance analysis in virtual environment, which include recognition of assembly relation based on assembly ports, partial disassembly in assembly procedure, assembly movement navigation, recording of assembly procedure and tolerance information visualization. Besides, the paper also realizes the reusing of virtual assembly procedure to support modification and refinement of components´ structure in collaborative product design.
Keywords :
CAD; assembling; data visualisation; groupware; product design; virtual reality; CAD team; assembly movement navigation; collaborative product design; component model expression method; information visualization; tolerance analysis; virtual assembly; Assembly systems; Collaboration; Collaborative tools; Design automation; Navigation; Product design; Refining; Tolerance analysis; Virtual environment; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2005. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-84600-002-5
DOI :
10.1109/CSCWD.2005.194243
