Procedure to Create an Automated Design Environment for Functional Assemblies

DS 116: Proceedings of the DESIGN2022 17th International Design Conference

Year: 2022
Editor: Mario Štorga, Stanko Škec, Tomislav Martinec, Dorian Marjanović
Author: Altun Osman, Yinanc Kutay, Iryna Mozgova, Roland Lachmayer
Series: DESIGN
Institution: Leibniz Universit
Section: Design Support Tools and Methods
Page(s): 553-562
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2022.57
ISSN: 2732-527X (Online)

Abstract

Manually exploring the solution space for different variants of a product for a given set of requirements is ineffective regarding product development time and adaptation to dynamic customer requirements. Variant generation coupled to optimization algorithms offers possibilities to search the solution space in an automated way. This paper provides a framework to build a generative parametric design environment for functional assemblies by implementing analysis as well as synthesis methods in computer-aided tools. The procedure is presented using the example of a coffee machine.

Keywords: generative design, knowledge-based engineering (KBE), design optimisation, computer-aided design (CAD)