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Procedure to Create an Automated Design Environment for Functional Assemblies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2022

A. Osman ,
Y. Kutay ,
I. Mozgova  and
R. Lachmayer
A. Osman*
Affiliation:
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Y. Kutay
Affiliation:
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
I. Mozgova
Affiliation:
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
R. Lachmayer
Affiliation:
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
*
altun@ipeg.uni-hannover.de

Abstract

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Manually exploring the solution space for different variants of a product for a given set of requirements is ineffective regarding product development time and adaptation to dynamic customer requirements. Variant generation coupled to optimization algorithms offers possibilities to search the solution space in an automated way. This paper provides a framework to build a generative parametric design environment for functional assemblies by implementing analysis as well as synthesis methods in computer-aided tools. The procedure is presented using the example of a coffee machine.

Keywords

generative designknowledge-based engineering (KBE)design optimisationcomputer-aided design (CAD)

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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 2: DESIGN2022 , May 2022 , pp. 553 - 562
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