The integration methodology of product design and process planning into one common activity has been studied. The current CAD system do not provide mold designers with necessary function for CAD/CAPP interface except the geometric modeling capability....
The integration methodology of product design and process planning into one common activity has been studied. The current CAD system do not provide mold designers with necessary function for CAD/CAPP interface except the geometric modeling capability. This paper describes a feature-based CAD system which enables the current design and CIM, with integrated design procedure, at the initial design stage of injection molding. A new design methodology and resulting feature data files for this design system are also discussed.