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Mechanism Design with Creo Elements/Pro 5.0 (Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0) Kuang-Hua Chang, Ph.D. School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering The University of Oklahoma Norman, OK SDC PUBLICATIONS www.SDC Schroff Development Corporation Mechanism Design with Pro/ENGINEER 1-1 Lesson 1: Introduction to Mechanism Design 1.1 Overview of the Lesson The purpose of this lesson is to provide you with a brief overview of Mechanism Design. Mechanism Design is a virtual prototyping tool that supports mechanism analysis and design. Instead of building and testing physical prototypes of the mechanism, you may use Mechanism Design to evaluate and refine the mechanism before finalizing the design and entering the functional prototyping stage. Mechanism Design will help you analyze and eventually design better engineering products. More specifically, the software enables you to size motors and actuators, determine power consumption, layout linkages, develop cams, understand gear trains, size springs and dampers, and determine interference between parts, which would usually require tests of physical prototypes. With such information, you will gain insight on how the mechanism works and why it behaves in certain ways. You will be able to modify the design and often achieve better design alternatives using the more convenient and less expensive virtual prototypes. In the long run, using virtual prototyping tools, such as Mechanism Design, will help you become a more experienced and competent design engineer. In this lesson, we will start with a brief introduction to