This paper presents a novel view of a software environment which has the potential to provide support to design for manufacture in line with the aims of global concurrent engineering. The arguments developed should have significant consequences for future CAE systems development and support the continuing globalisation in business development. The approach taken has at the centre of its philoso...

There are no corresponding CAD education resources for CAD courses for students at colleges and universities. A CAD education resource platform for mechanical design, manufacturing and automation speciality is developed. Feature-based modeling, Pro/TOOLKIT and Family Table provided by Pro/ENGINEER and Visual C++6.0 are utilized to develop three-dimensional standard part resources according to t...

In order to optimize product designs it is necessary to quickly evaluate many candidate materials in terms of performance and processing costs. Evaluation using physical prototypes yields concrete results but is time intensive and costly when dealing with multiple optimization objectives. As an alternative, computer aided simulation is a reliable means of material evaluation and selection, is i...