Disassembly/assembly path search reusing solutions

It is important to generate and evaluate disassembly paths in product design stages for reducing the recycling and repairing costs of products. This paper proposes a method for generating the disassembly paths automatically by using CAD data. The method is efficient especially to generate the disassembly paths of the design objects got by modifying the original ones whose disassembly paths have been generated before. In the method, the disassembly paths of such modified design objects are generated efficiently by using those of the original ones. Based on the method, the authors developed a software tool integrated with a CAD system and performed an experiment using the tool