Research And Exploitation On The Modular Conceptual Bicycle-Design System

The developing tendency of bicycle-design is multiple-variety, few-batch, individuation, responds quickly to the changing of the market. The fore-stage of bicycle-designation, conceptual design, is the key to the creation and innovation of modular design. Modular design technology was used at the stage of bicycle conceptual design, so as to make the process of bicycle design visual, quickly and individuation.Based on the research of modular design and conceptual design, in allusion to the characteristic of bicycle-design, the bicycle-design system was analyzed and explored. It was discomposed into 3 relatively unaided subsystems: the basic data-base, the bicycles data-base, the joint between the user and the system. Firstly, based on the Pro/Engineer system, the based data-base was established, so that the original Pro/Engineer system was optimized to fit the mechanical standard of china and the requirement of the bicycle-design. Secondly, the structure of bicycle was analyzed and disassembled into several functional modules, so that the bicycle modular data-base was established. Thirdly, a series of interchanging documents were made, based on which every module can be interchanged among different modules. Finally, in the aid of the high-class tools of Pro/Engineer, the joint between the user and the system was founded to make users design indivisualized bicycles with dialog box of parameter.