Heavy-Duty Commercial Vehicle Axle Rapid Development System Design and Implementation Based on Virtual Reality Technology

Abstract

The paper presented a virtual design method of heavy-duty commercial vehicle axle development based on secondary development of 3D design and analysis software, which is directed towards the problems of duplication, low accuracy and high cost at present. Furthermore, the paper described the design process of Heavy-Duty Commercial Vehicle Drive Axle Rapid Development System Software(hereinafter called "the software"), which includes framework of software system, engineering database design, secondary development to Pro/Engineer, and secondary development to ANSYS. Moreover, the paper described the implementation process of parametric design, automatic assembly, interference check, and automatic finite element analysis by taking the driving axle shell design as the example. The software had already applied in a driving axle producer in china, and achieved the desired objectives.The method not only applys to parts parametric design development for driving axle, but also provides a reference to developing parametric design analysis system for other products.