Analysis driven mechanical redesign

Technical Report · Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/532604· OSTI ID:532604

Ames, A L; Robison, R H

This paper documents an effort to use a constrained nonlinear optimization package (OptdesX) to drive a feature-based mechanical design system (Pro/Engineer) in an optimization loop. Optimizations performed in this manner can maximally respect the design intent built into the model, and eliminate the need to propagate optimization results back to design, a flaw of most current optimization systems. A prototype system was built to demonstrate the capability; use of the prototype uncovered a variety of issues that should be addressed to productionize this kind of capability.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 532604
• Report Number(s): SAND--97-2052; ON: DE97009401; BR: YN010000000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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