Research on Lathe Automatic Design System

A lathe digital design system was developed through the integration between knowledge-engineering-related technology and product parametric design technology. The frame of the design system was expressed in detail such as main control module, initialization module, update management module of 3D and 2D, knowledge management module and knowledge library. The key technologies of the system design such as Knowledge mining and classification, automatic design of transform structures, establishing model database, automatic design of variable structure, and lathe design navigator were further studied in the paper. Finally, the automatic design system interface and the design process were introduced in detail.