DESIGN OF A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR DESIGN AUTOMATION

Umesh A. Bedse, Laukik P. Raut

Abstract: In research and development field, many research efforts have been made to save the overall time of product design and development of any product. As we know that design phase has a lot of potential where overall time can be saved. Hence, design automation has been the best concept came into picture which involves integration of different software like product design software developed, modeling software and analysis software. It has been observed that many researchers are taking efforts in the area of design automation like integration of different tailor made software developed using different computer programming languages like Visual Basic, Java, C++ with different CAD software like Pro/E, CREO Parametric, CATIA, SolidWorks .But it is observed that Visual Basic is having some better advantages over others like it will give dot frame work for design of product input base as well as it can be easily interface with intermediate software like Microsoft excel which provides an input to other modeling or analysis software and among all available parametric modeling software CREO is widely used in industries because it has best parameterization quality. In this paper, integration of product design software developed using Visual Basic as computer programming language and CREO Parametric as modeling software by taking the case study of design of CI Engine parts has been done to validate the concept. Simulation of CI Engine is added in developed GUI which gives results of pressure, temperature, volume at each crank angle of crankshaft in the form of graphs and maximum value of pressure and temperature got are being used for structural and thermal analysis of major components.

Keywords: CAD, GUI, Simulation, CREO, Visual Basic

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0509029