A CAD system for interactive assembly modeling

대화식 조립체 모델링을 위한 전산기 원용 설계 시스템

A technique is developed which allows a designer to interactively create an assembly of components by specifying mating contions between the individual components. Once establishing the relationships between components via the mating conditions, each component's location and orientation in the final assembly is computed. The joint information for a kinematic and dynamic analysis can be derived from the mating conditions, therefore this work may be extended to incorporate this analysis. Thorugh this development it will no longer be necessary for a designer to specify cumbersome and error prone transformation matrices in order to create an assembly. The designer also will be able to perform a kinematic or a dynamic analysis directly from an assembly model if the joint information can be automatically derived.