Design And Implementation Of The UG-Based Knowledge-Driven Plastic Eyewear Design Wizard System

The traditional design tool always takes shapes modeling as core, have less consideration to the engineering design and lack good solution in design process of excellent turn, catch design intention and experience parameter of reuse. But in the particular profession, the development of product usually foundation on product development experiences and engineering manufacture experiences which already had. Therefore to develop these products, have no which technique can have more application value than the knowledge engineering's technique. The KBE (Knowledge Based Engineering) is the realm expert's knowledge's inherit , integration, innovation and management. It is CAX technique and the AI technical integration. The design and development of mostly industrial product requests the designer has higher professional technique and abundant of actual design experience. Foster the design of an expert class' personnel's demand very long of period. And once the personnel flow, experience for correspond is also take. To use KBE technique design knowledge and experience can be solid down. Such as design process, experience data, the craft parameter, manufacture method and so on,make each designer can share it. The KBE technique makes knowledge and process reuse became reality, and brought a new revolution and change of the product development.The eyewear is a kind of special product. It requests function and vogue close combine. Its style is always changed. But its engineering size must followed a certain standard. Many designers who beginning work at eyewear profession,even those designers who have worked many years in eyewear design,because don't know this standard,so the eyewears that they designed,though looked not bad,but they not comfortable to be weared by consumer,even can't be weared.UGNX is a product development system from the UGS company .It provided a knowledge driven automation (KDA) solutions make KBE system and CAX software system completely integrated.KDA is a technology can be used to develop a system that can record, reuse engineering's knowledge to drive, establishment, choice and assemble model .Through the re-usable part in the engineering process automation, it can help those engineers who lack of experiences work outs a complicated problemand the applied KDA technique can shorten the product circulate of period.The main work of this text is design and implementate the "plastic eyewear design guide" system. This system's main special features is it base on windows xp use the UGNX4.0 (a product development system from the UGS) and the VisualC++6.0 (a software development system from the Microsoft )as develop terrace, applied KDA and UG/Open API application development techniques, integrate the plastic eyewear design process, design experience,eyewear engineering data and craft parameter to UGNX system by the form of design guide system and provide design instruction and design tool for the eyewear designer whom experience lack. Make they have the ability design and develop a qualified eyewear product faster under the instruction of this guide system.