Overhead Traveling Crane's CAD System For Mass Customization

Mass customization has been the contemporary production of enterprise with its mature technologies. This paper researches the overhead traveling crane CAD technology based on the overhead traveling crane's customization characteristic. The system enhances the enterprise's competition ability and releases the engineers from the heavy repeat work. Detail as follows:1. This paper introduces the direction and meaning of mass customization, introduces crane design's direction and its CAD technology, points out the necessity of researching"overhead traveling crane's CAD system for mass customization".2. This paper analyzes usual methods of mass customization, researches in CAD design of overhead traveling crane with modular design, parametric design, product configuration design and data management technique, finds out series possible CAD methods.3. By dint of the object-oriented development tool-visual basic 6.0 and redevelopment technology, this paper developments CAD system of metal structure in SolidWorks. Modular library of overhead traveling crane, product configuration formula and structure, product family assemble technique and parametric method was researched.4. Some other technique was also researched like data management, drawing adjust.Practice indicates design efficiency and precision of metal structure is largely improved than ever. It will bring tremendous economy benefits and accelerate the enterprises'customization development.