The using of Virtual Prototyping technology in education

摘要

Virtual Prototyping technology is very important in new product development, and it's a main trend for manufacturing industry. It's necessary to open this kind of course for cultivating talents of multi-body dynamics. From teaching and test links the students' product development ability based on multi-body dynamics platform can be increased. Very year there are about one thousand and two hundred students should partake this course learning. This course is divided in two parts of theoretical study and test link, and the curriculum setup is based on Recurdyn software. In this paper, some study methods, design examples, design idea and software are presented and an effective education procedure is discussed. In this paper some samples can be provided such as chain, V-Bbelt Tutorial and MTT2D Tutorial with IGES Import virtual prototype. Some design procedures and methods can be offered based on Recurdyn software, as follows: create new models, set working condition, create design points, create all parts models, imposing forces and constraints, test model, refining model, iterating model, optimize model and customize interface. From the above design procedures, the virtual prototype can be gotten and has been optimized design analysis. From the design results of virtual prototype, physical model machine can be made.