Development Of Parametric Design Platform For Regenerative Industrial Furnace Based On SolidWorks

Regenerative industrial furnace,as the essential equipment for pre-forging heating of steel ingots or billets,and heat treatment of metals,plays a significant role in the mechanical field.However,it has the characteristics of complex structure,numerous parts and complex types.Traditional product design mode requires a lot of tedious calculation and verification of core components,repeated reconstruction and assembly of various parts of three-dimensional models,modification or redrawing of engineering drawings,which makes the product design cycle long,increases the design cost of the enterprise,and restricts the product quickly responds to market demand.In order to improve the design efficiency of the regenerative industrial furnace,reduce the repetitive and cumbersome workload in the design process,and realize the development of intelligent,serialized,modularized and personalized product design.This paper used the three-dimensional modeling software SolidWorks as the secondary development platform,Visual Studio as the development tool,VB.NET as the programming language,Access to establish the database,MATLAB and VB.NET to achieve mixed programming,and developed a friendly interface regenerative industrial furnace the parametric design platform.It realized the program automation of the entire design process of the regenerative industrial furnace.Firstly,the functional requirements of the parametric design platform of the regenerative industrial furnace were studied,the module composition of the parametric design platform was analyzed,and the overall framework of the parametric design platform was established,and the main form and sub-forms of the platform were designed.In addition,the key technical methods of parametric design were researched,and the database was built by Access.Secondly,the structural characteristics of the regenerative industrial furnace were analyzed,and overall structure was divided into modules,and used MATLAB and VB.NET to realize mixed programming to realize the optimization calculation of the key parameters of important stressed components,and the entire calculation process was programmed.Thirdly,based on the secondary development technology of SolidWorks,it focused on the automatic assembly method of parts and the automatic adjustment technology of engineering drawings,and used VB.NET to write programs to realize the automatic creation of various parts of three-dimensional models and virtual assembly between parts.And realized batch output of engineering drawings,and automatically adjusted the view scale,view size,size position,and annotation position of the engineering drawing.Using the top-level assembly traversal method obtained the attribute information of all the components of the regenerative industrial furnace three-dimensional model.It provided a method to quickly generate the material purchase list and the pre-sale quotation list,and realized an efficient and continuous production new mode of selling-designing-purchasingmanufacturing.Finally,a document management module was developed for product information involving a large number of model files,drawing files,project orders and other product information during the entire life cycle of design,production,and sales,including document management,user management,data management and other functions,which realized that it was managed systematically and logically by the enterprise.