Feature representation and database schema of an object - oriented feature-based product model for hydraulic manifold blocks

摘要

A feature-based hydraulic valve block model is built using an object-oriented method to integrate the information for CAD and CAM. Features are predefined in a feature library and can be instantiated and managed to form a hydraulic valve block. The block model is a dynamic database and can be updated at any stage of CAD/CAM, and has a user-friendly interface to different applications such as design, evaluation, and CAPP. The model is developed with C++ in a Windows environment.