IDENTIFYING FEATURES IN CAD MODELS FOR POWDER METALLURGY COMPONENT EVALUATION
DS 48: Proceedings DESIGN 2008, the 10th International Design Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Year: 2008
Editor: Marjanovic D., Storga M., Pavkovic N., Bojcetic N.
Author: Stolt, R.
Section: Geometrical modelling and tolerancing
Page(s): 689 - 696
Abstract
This paper presents a newly developed CAD-integrated system for the manufacturability evaluation of designs of powder metallurgy (PM) pressed and sintered parts. The contribution of the paper is the automated reconstruction of a specialized construction history tree from any CAD-model directly in the receiving CAD-system. The reconstruction is based on the geometrical restrictions of the shapes that can be manufactured by the PM process. This facilitates the creation of a transparent and user revisable rule-base to evaluate the parts manufacturability, which is shown. It will enable designers to get feedback on their designs, reducing the number of design loops with the PM-parts supplier needed before the parts geometry can be established.