Generating significant subassemblies from 3D assembly models for design reuse
Chao Zhang,
Guanghui Zhou,
Qi Lu and
Fengtian Chang
International Journal of Production Research, 2018, vol. 56, issue 14, 4744-4761
Abstract:
Significant subassemblies are defined as the reusable regions of pre-existing 3D assembly models. A significant subassembly has great significances for design reuse as it aggregates abundant knowledge in a vivid 3D CAD model and enables designers to reuse existing mature designs from a high-level perspective. Consequently, this paper contributes to significant subassembly generation from pre-existing 3D assembly models for design reuse. The paper first gives an explicit definition of significant subassemblies and further explores the multilevel knowledge embedded in these significant subassemblies. Based on the above definition and multilevel knowledge, a knowledge-based approach is then proposed for significant subassembly generation, which includes three phases: (1) identifying candidate subassemblies with high cohesion inside and low coupling outside using the Markov clustering process; (2) removing normal candidate subassemblies with low reusability and less information, and generating filtered subassemblies using the proposed assembly frequency – inverse mean subassembly frequency based scheme; and (3) determining significant subassemblies by measuring the complexity of the filtered subassemblies. Finally, a computer numerical control honing machine model is taken as an application example to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2018.1465608
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