Abstract

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 the newest Machinery Design Handbook. Its man-machine interface is developed that accords with engineering personnel's habit. The interface between Pro/ENGINEER and Access databases is developed to call the data in Access databases from Pro/ENGINEER. The platform is mainly used to provide standard part models for the students studying CAD related courses. It is intuitionistic and easy to use. The approach can also be applied to develop other education resource platforms.

Keywords:

CAD, education resource, platform development, pro/ENGINEER, Pro/TOOLKIT, standard part, visual C++,

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