3D打印技术在“计算机辅助制造”教学中的应用

3D打印技术是一种新兴的制造技术,随着社会的发展日趋成熟,应用的领域也越来越广泛,在制造、建筑、医疗、教育等领域都有所应用。“计算机辅助制造”课程是机械设计制造类专业的核心课程之一,主要学习零部件的结构分析并对零部件进行数字模型建立、工艺路径规划等,实践性较强。课程的内容相对比较抽象,需要学生具备较强的空间想象能力。通过在教学中引入3D打印技术,将抽象的零件模型以实物的方式展示出来,更有利于学生掌握零部件结构,方便进行机构分析及工艺路径规划,也增加课程的趣味性,有效提高学生的学习积极性。

高职“计算机辅助设计与制造”专业培养计划探讨

根据高职"计算机辅助设计与制造"专业的培养目标和要求,探讨该专业教学模块,根据教学内容的相互依存关系提出了课程安排,分析了各课程的内容、目的和要求.

高职高专“计算机辅助设计与制造”课程设置改革探讨

文章根据目前高职高专计算机辅助设计与制造课程设置情况,讨论了该课程设置的合理性,并着重把AUTOCAD课程及MasterCAM课程和Pro/Engineer CAD\CAM课程进行了比较,分析两者的不足和优点,提出高职高专院校计算机辅助设计与制造课程采用Pro/E CAD\CAM系统更为合适。

A FORMAL REPRESENTATION FOR FEATURE-BASED DESIGN

Feature based design has been regarded as a promising approach for CAD/CAM integration.This paper aims to establish a domain independent representation formalism for feature based design in three aspects: formal representation,design process model and design algorithm.The implementing scheme and formal description of feature taxonomy,feature operator,feature model validation and feature transformation are given in the paper.The feature based design process model suited for either sequencial or concurrent engineering is proposed and its application to product structural design and process plan design is presented. Some general design algorithms for developing feature based design system are also addressed.The proposed scheme provides a formal methodology elementary for feature based design system development and operation in a structural way.

An Analysis of the Structure of Carbide-tool Utilization Expert System

The necessity and feasibility of an expert system for carbide-tool utilization are analyzed and a practical system named CUES(carbide-tool utilization expert system ) is developed and realized. The system concept, module structure, data management, inference strategy and the interface design of the system are discussed in.detail. The system would be useful not only for the preparation of tool bank of FMS or CIMS, but the for the proper application of cemented carbide tools in conventional machining Processes.

对高职CAD/CAM校本课程开发的思考

根据学校的教学环境和教学资源开发计算机辅助设计与制造(CAD／CAM)校本课程，是弥补规划教材不足，主动适应社会需求，形成专业特色，提高学生职业能力的有效途径。文章从优化课程内容、实现课程的综合化、实行模块化教学和推行职业资格证书等几方面，对开发CAD／CAM校本课程应注意的问题进行了有益的探讨。

INTEGRATION OF GENERIC SHOP FLOOR CONTROL

Based on the discussion of functions, components, control structure and network computing architecture of generic shop floor control (GSFC) in computer integrated manufacturing system (CIMS), the internal integration between components of GSFC and the external integration between GSFC and the other components of CIMS are studied. The integration models on the aspects of function, information, processing and interface are put forward. The integration models and the methods are implemented and applied in CIMS projects successfully.

A NEW ALGORITHM BASED ON TRIANGULATION FOR 5 AXIS MACHINING OF SCULPTURED SURFACES

NC machining path of sculptured surfaces in CAD/CAM system plays an important role on manufacture. This paper describes a new algorithm for 5 axis machining of sculptured surfaces and the algorithm is interference free. The approach includes: (1) the tesselation of the parametric surfaces into triangles; (2) building topological relations among triangles;(3) 5 axis tool path generation; (4) interference detection and tool position correction.

PLANNING METHOD OF TOOL ORIENTATION IN FIVE-AXIS NC MACHINING

The planning method of tool orientation in the five-axis NC machining is studied. The problem of the existing method is analyzed and a new method for generating the global smoothing tool orientation is proposed by introducing the key frame idea in the animation-making. According to the feature of the part, several key tool orientations are set without interference between the tool and the part. Then, these key tool orientations are inter- polated by the spline function. By mapping the surface parameter to the spline parameter, the spline function value is obtained and taken as the tool orientation when generating the CL file. The machining result shows that the proposed method realizes the global smoothing of the tool orientation and the continuity of the rotational speed and the rotational acceleration. It also avoids the shake of the machine tool and improves the machining quality.

Study on Blade Mould CAD/CAM for Hydrodynamic Torque COnverters

Aim To develop blade mould CAD/CAM system of torque converter. Methods The mouldconsisted of four parts and an interactive computer program was developed to design a blade mould of torque converter based on UG at workstation. Results As compar- ed to manual modeling, it is showed in the application that this means not only improves the accuracy of blade shape and manufacture efficiency of converter, but also reduces costs. Conclusion It is proved that this CAD/CAM system is successful, and it opens up widely prospects for design and manufacture of the blade elementsand their moulds.

MANUFACTURING SERVICE SYSTEM BASED ON WEB SERVICES FOR PARALLEL KINEMATICS MACHINES

Parallel kinematics machine （PKM） is advantageous over the serial machine tools in processing the complex-surface products. A manufacturing service system for PKM is developed to provide the services of the complex-surface machining for potential geographically-dispersed manufacturing enterprises. In order to easily in- tegrate the external system, Web services are used to encapsulate post-processing functions of PKM legacy sys- tems, including compilation, workspace calculation, interfere calibration, and kinematics transformation. A ser- vice-oriented architecture（SOA） is proposed for the cooperative work between the PKM system and its client. The workflow and the function module of this manufacturing service system are presented. An example shows that as a result of SOA and loose coupling, such a Web service-based manufacturing service system is easier to in- tegrate and interoperate with its client. Meanwhile, the system decreases the manufacturing cost and improves the efficiency than its former kind of distributed system.

巧用实验室设备进行家具CAD/CAM/CNC原理与应用一体化教学

介绍了如何在小规模的投入下,结合教育心理学理论,有效地利用实验室设备讲解家具CAD/CAM/CNC的原理与应用,让学生亲自动手,直观易懂地掌握现代化的家具设计与制造知识。

SOFTWARE SYSTEM FOR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING

The advent of rapid prototyping & manufacturing techniques represents a major breakthrough in production engineering. This paper is concerned with the software system aspects of the selective laser sintering (SLS),i.e.the issues that deal with an external geometric CAD model to automatically control the physical layering fabrication process as directly as possible ,regardless of the source of the model. The general issues are described and some key methods are given in this paper.

A CAD EXPERT SYSTEM OF AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURING COORDINATION

讨论了工程CAD专家系统特点，提出其一般结构。为了解决如飞机制造协调等复杂工程问题，实现一种层次分布式CAD专家系统（HDES）结构。HDES由元级、任务级两个水平的分布式专家系统组成：任务级专家系统（T－ES）主要用于应用设计，它们在其自己的设计领域中执行；元级专家系统（M－ES）则处理合作。介绍了层次－框架－规则的专家系统组织表示方法。

The Implementation of Decision Support System for Realizing Effective Usability of CNC Operator Knowledge Capturing System

This article describes experimental evaluations of the authors＇ previous studies on the knowledge-based system （KBS） aimed at capturing and managing CNC （Computer Numerical Control） operator knowledge. The proposed KBS follow thinking steps of CNC operators when they assess machining parameters described in the CAM （Computer Aided Manufacturing） file before proceeding to CNC machining processes. Also, the decision support system equipped with expert system （ES） has been proposed to realize efficient knowledge capturing system and effective usability of captured knowledge, and to recommend actions and decisions. From the viewpoint of providing useful information, the KBS should be aware of context or constraints in which the user has to deal with. In this study, the usefulness of DSS （Decision Support System） and ES is experimentally evaluated using real cases. Comparing the results of the testing participants with and without the DSS and ES, the effectiveness and usefulness were demonstrated. In addition, it was shown that the proposed system is also useful to narrow the discrepancies between CAM and CNC operators, focusing on CNC milling operations.

Mathematical model of slotting manufacture and simulation for cosine gears

A slotting method for cosine gears was proposed by using the involute cutter based on the conjugate theories of digital surface and gear meshing. The slotting model between the cosine tooth surface represented by discrete points and the cutter figuration determined by analytic function was built for their geometrical relationship and conjugate motion during the machining process. Conjugate points in the cutter section corresponding to the discrete points on the cosine gear tooth surface and the conjugate movements were solved. By using the flexible control of the CNC procedure, the active control of the cutting trace of the slotting cutter was accomplished and the envelop forming of the cosine gear was obtained. Based on the software C++ and Matlab, the computer aided manufacturing(CAM) system of the cosine gear was developed, and the simulation of the slotting process was accomplished. Several examples were provided to illustrate the approach. The result of the simulation demonstrates that the proposed slotting method is feasible.

Application of NURBS for Obtaining Free Form Curves and Surfaces in Spur and Helical Gears by Using CMM （Coordinate Measurement Machine）

Currently, engineering processes require reduced manufacturing time and low cost, in addition to the growing demand for workpieces with high accuracy. Workpieces with complex geometries and free forms has been a common practice in industries from different sectors such as： automotive, aeronautics, bioengineering among others. One way to satisfy the market requirements satisfactorily is making measurements more efficient to make the production process faster, in other words, it is necessary to make the inspection system more accurate and flexible. The coordinate measuring evolved over the past three decades and today it is the technology that best meets the requirements of modem manufacturing through CMMs （coordinate measurement machines）. The CMMs are important tool for design, fabrication and inspection of manufactured products, also used in the application of reverse engineering. These machines are also used by engineers in order to produce an accurate digital model in a virtual space for later use in CAD （computer-aided design）/CAM （computer-aided manufacturing）. It is worth mentioning that the accuracy of the modeling process of given piece depends on the number of control points that are captured on the workpiece surface. Consequently, the laser inspection systems are the best tools for use in reverse engineering, but more expensive when compared to contact measurement systems that use the TTP （touch trigger probe）, also used by CMMs. In this case, this paper aims to present an approach based on NURBS （non-uniform rational B-splines） to obtain free form curves and surfaces from a group of points obtained by using a contact sensor, the touch trigger probe. NURBS is an important mathematical tool and consists of generalizations of Bezier curves and surfaces and B-splines. The approach proposed in this paper can be applied for obtaining free form curves and surfaces in spur and helical gears. Experimental results obtained by measuring spur gears showed that the NURBS technique contributes for application of CMMs with touch trigger probe in reverse engineering.

Neural network approach for modification and fitting of digitized data in reverse engineering~

Reverse engineering in the manufacturing field is a process in which the digitized data are obtained from an existing object model or a part of it, and then the CAD model is reconstructed. This paper presents an RBF neural network approach to modify and fit the digitized data. The centers for the RBF are selected by using the orthogonal least squares learning algorithm. A mathematically known surface is used for generating a number of samples for training the networks. The trained networks then generated a number of new points which were compared with the calculating points from the equations. Moreover, a series of practice digitizing curves are used to test the approach. The results showed that this approach is effective in modifying and fitting digitized data and generating data points to reconstruct the surface model.

Real-time Bezier interpolation satisfying chord error constraint for CNC tool path

G01 code generated by a computer-aided manufacture （CAM） system is the most common form of tool trajeclory in computer numerical control （CNC） machining. A tool path composed of short line segments has discontinuous tangenc t and curvature, generating large fluctuations of feedrate and acceleration, which in turn produces vibration in a machine tool. To obtain a smooth tool path, many methods on tool-path smoothing have been developed. However, the shortcomings i：1 these methods exist when they are employed in a CNC system. It is difficult to simultaneously to guarantee the following requirements of CNC machining： （1） chord error should be rigidly constrained; （2） G01 points should be interpolated; （3） cur,,ature should be continuous （G2）; （4） machining should be applicable to spatial cases; （5） real-time performance of computaEion is required.Based on these various requirements, this study proposes an interpolation scheme using CUDlC t^ezler curves anu mciuucb illl adjustment strategy to eliminate deficiencies in the tool path. The tool path generated is G2, chord-elror-constrained, G01-point-interpolated, loop-free, and optimized for both stretch and jerk energy. The method is applicable ：o 3D cases and involves only simple algebraic computations. Thus, the algorithm can be applied to real-time CNC machining. A simulation is conducted to validate the efficiency of the algorithm. In addition, an experiment reveals its advantage over Hermite interpola- tion in surface quality and machining efficiency.

Additive manufactured metallic implants for orthopaedic applications

Metallic implants are commonly used in various orthopaedic surgeries, like fracture fixation, spinal instrumentation, joint replacement and bone tumour surgery.Patients may need to adapt to the fixed dimensions of the standard implants. It may result in suboptimal fit to the host bones and possible adverse clinical results. The standard traditional implants may not address the reconstructive challenges such as severe bone deformity or bone loss after implant loosening and bone tumour resection. With the advent of digital technologies in medical imaging, computer programming in three-dimensional（3 D） modelling and computer-assisted tools in precise placement of implants, patient-specific implants（PSI） have gained more attention in complex orthopaedic reconstruction. Additive manufacturing technology, in contrast to the conventional subtractive manufacturing, is a flexible process that can fabricate anatomically conforming implants that match the patients’ anatomy and surgical requirements. Complex internal structures with porous scaffold can also be built to enhance osseointegration for better implant longevity. Although basic studies have suggested that additive manufactured（AM） metal structures are good engineered biomaterials for bone replacement, not much peer-reviewed literature is available on the clinical results of the new types of implants. The article gives an overview of the metallic materials commonly used for fabricating orthopaedic implants, describes the metal-based additive manufacturing technology and the processing chain in metallic implants; discusses the features of AM implants;reports the current status in orthopaedic surgical applications and comments on the challenges of AM implants in orthopaedic practice.