| The crane plays an increasingly important role in all walks of life and the requirement of the crane design also improved quickly due to the increase in non-standard products, shorten in delivery deadline and fierce competition in the market. The paper takes the gantry crane as an example, applies the visualization technology into structure design of the gantry crane and converts manual design calculation procedure into computer aided design procedure that has visualized environment, which is very convenient for interaction between computers and designers and makes the design procedure become quite simple and quick. Design efficiency can also be greatly improved due to the use of the technology.Through deep understanding and learning the concept of the visualization design, it completes visualized design software of gantry crane metal structure and gantry crane traveling mechanism based on object-oriented programming language Visual C++ on the platform of Windows, both have their distinctive features.The gantry crane metal structure visualization software is mainly about the design of the whole structure, which can automatically call the dimensional calculation module and checking module to complete calculating and checking when the designer input the parameters. The advantage of this method is that parameters and design target will be integrated at one interface, design procedure will be direct and open, interactive design will follow the specific needs of the designer, and then the calculation and graphing will be completed by the computer.The gantry crane traveling mechanism visualization software aims at the relatively stable, series parts, interchangeable parts and resemble parts take up a large proportion and fixed layout characteristics of the traveling mechanism, integrated a series of respectively adapting components serial design process into one interface, the designer can freely conduct visualized choosing of the standard components needed in the mechanism, then system can automatically call the checking module to check whether it meet the requirements, therefore, the speed of design is relatively high and also can avoid the heavy workload and low efficiency during the design.The gantry crane visualization design software based on object-oriented programming language Visual C++ can realize visualized design between designer and computer during the design of the crane, design procedure also becomes very simple and quick. In fact, takes use of visualization technique into the design of gantry crane software will comprehensively improve the design quality and speed of the product and also suitable to the development of other non-standard machinery products design software, which have certain promotional value. |
