工艺规划与CADCAM数控机床系统集成.doc

A feasible approach to the integration of CAD and CAPP? 综合方法与总体思路 Although current CAD systems are declared to be feature-based, in fact, the so-called feature is just a modeling macro or menu name such as Protrusion, Revolution, Cutout, Block, etc., instead of a design feature or manufacturing feature in accordance with engineering practice. Consequently, product model data insufficiency and incompatibility between varieties of application systems are still the major barriers to system integration, especially the integration of design and process planning. This paper proposes a practical solution for a bi-directional integration of CAD and CAPP on the platform of commercial CAD systems. The key techniques such as feature recognition and conversion, feature parameter and constraint extraction, feature tree reconstruction, technical information processing, process planning, automatic process drawing marking and 3D material stock CAD model generating are discussed. And the extracted features and their related technical information and knowledge are encapsulated together with the geometry-oriented CAD model to form an integrated product information model to facilitate effective integration with the downstream activities. The integrated CAD/CAPP system is implemented on a commercial CAD package, UGS/SolidEdge. A case study and industry implementation illustrate the feasibility of the approach proposed. Article Outline 1. Introduction 2. Related research work and review 2.1. Feature recognition and technical information processing 2.2. Process planning 2.3. System integration 3. The proposed methodology 3.1. System architecture 3.2. Information integration 3.3. Function model 4. Feature recognition and conversion 4.1. Feature recognition and conversion algorithm 4.2. Manufacturing feature recognition and reconstruction 5. Process planning 5.1. Process decision-making 5.2. Process selection and operation sequencing optimization 6. Sto