Abstract
The assembly sequence plan (ASP) is a relatively new concept that has drawn the attention of many researchers over the last years. In spite of the enormous development of CAD Software in many aspects, the automatic generation of ASP from CAD assembly remains a subject to improve especially with the growing complexity of industrial products. This article presents an ASP generation approach based on CAD assembly data. To generate ASP, the developed method is composed of two mains steps. The first one is the extraction of the CAD assembly data. To identify all possible obstacles during the components’ displacement, an interference analysis process is performed in the second step. An illustrative example of the CAD assembly is detailed in the different stages of this article.
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Trigui, M., BenHadj, R. & Aifaoui, N. An interoperability CAD assembly sequence plan approach. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 79, 1465–1476 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-015-6855-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-015-6855-2