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Toward an automated approach to the design of sheet metal components

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2004

ADITYA SOMAN ,
SWAPNIL PADHYE  and
MATTHEW I. CAMPBELL
ADITYA SOMAN
Affiliation:
Manufacturing and Design Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-0292, USA
SWAPNIL PADHYE
Affiliation:
Manufacturing and Design Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-0292, USA
MATTHEW I. CAMPBELL
Affiliation:
Manufacturing and Design Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-0292, USA
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Abstract

The design of sheet metal components is perhaps one of the more challenging concurrent activities for design and manufacturing engineers. To aid this design process, a method is developed to encapsulate the constraints of sheet metal that make designing such components a tedious and iterative procedure. This project involves the implementation and testing of a geometric representation scheme for building feasible sheet metal components through the use of 17 grammar rules that capture manufacturing operations like cutting and bending. The implemented system has benefits both as a user interaction tool and as the basis for a computational design synthesis approach for designing sheet metal components. An example of a constructed sheet metal component is shown along with the method for invoking the sheet metal grammar to create this component.

Keywords

Design AutomationShape GrammarsSheet MetalWear Prediction
Type
Research Article
Information
AI EDAM , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , August 2003 , pp. 187 - 204
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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