A complex machinery design-oriented digital prototype model driven method

Abstract

Because of information loss during the conversion between a geometric digital prototype and a performance digital prototype in developing a complex mechanical product, the model-driven architecture of a digital prototype was constructed. By analyzing the constituent elements of a STEP file, the platform independent model based on the digital prototype was established. The platform specific model conversion method from the model-driven platform independent model to the UG software, the Adams software and the Abaqus software was proposed. Based on the heterogeneous software interface and the scripting language, the model-driven modules of the above three types of software were developed and verified with numerical instances. The verification results show that the use of the model-driven method can share the model information on the special software for a mechanical digital prototype and that the model-driven modules thus developed can perform the quick simulation analysis and output its results in time.