Horizontally-structured manufacturing process modeling for concurrent product and process design

摘要

Disclosed is a method of horizontally structured CAD/CAM manufacturing for concurrent product and process design comprising: selecting a blank for machining into an actual part establishing a coordinate system (6); creating a master product and process concurrent model (40) comprising: a virtual blank (10) corresponding to the blank; a manufacturing feature (12a - 12j); virtual machining of the manufacturing feature (12a - 12j) into the virtual blank (10); the manufacturing feature (12a - 12j) exhibiting an associative relationship with the coordinate system (6); generating a product drawing (44) of the actual part; and generating machining instructions to create the actual part by machining the manufacturing feature (12a - 12j) into the blank. Also disclosed is a manufactured part created by a method of horizontally structured CAD/CAM manufacturing for concurrent product and process design, comprising: a blank for machining into an actual part a coordinate system (6); a master product and process concurrent model (40) comprising: a virtual blank (10) corresponding to the blank; a manufacturing feature (12a - 12j); virtual machining of the manufacturing feature (12a - 12j) into the virtual blank (10); the manufacturing feature (12a - 12j) exhibiting an associative relationship with the coordinate system (6); a product drawing (44) of the actual part; and the actual part created by machining the manufacturing feature (12a - 12j) into the blank in accordance with a machining instruction. Also disclosed is a storage medium encoded with a machine-readable computer program code for horizontally structured CAD/CAM manufacturing for concurrent product and process design. The storage medium including instructions for causing a computer to implement the method of horizontally structured CAD/CAM modeling and manufacturing. Additionally disclosed is a computer data signal for horizontally structured CAD/CAM manufacturing for concurrent product and process design. The computer data signal comprising code configured to cause a processor to implement a method of horizontally structured CAD/CAM modeling and manufacturing.