Research & Development On Bellows Expansion Joint Drawing Software

Expansion joint is the device containing one or more bellows and some components used to absorb or compensate dimension changes, such as those caused by thermal expansion or contraction of pipeline.Expansion joint is a kind of nonstandard device of which the shape, structure and parameter vary with temperature, pressure, displacement and cycle life. It would be complex to design an Expansion joint and would be very inconvenient if the designer want to change his design. Therefore, for satisfying the urgent requirement of the Expansion joint profession, in this thesis, author performed further-development of SolidWorks2006 based on deep research of it.In this thesis, research and development of Bellows Expansion Joint Drawing Software were introduced which aimed at automatically modeling, automatically assembly and automatically creating drawing in SolidWorks2006. This thesis mainly included several aspects as follows:1. A further-development plan has been established based on a comprehensive reading of domestic and foreign literatures. This thesis adopted SolidWorks2006 as developing platform, Visual Basic 6.0 as software development tool and developing executable program (.exe file) as software developing manner.2. This thesis deeply researched SolidWorks'functions including modeling, assembly, drawing and so on, furthermore, and obtained the optimized method of those functions.3. This thesis described the method of further-development of SolidWorks and provided key program. Moreover, the optimized method was put forward pointing at the deficiency of SolidWorks2006 API.4. Finished the development of software. Different program models were developed to meet corresponding functions of Bellows Expansion Joint Parametric Drawing Software, so that, this software had more reasonable structure and better performance. Then, the database was compiled by Microsoft Access. The query data...