Development of a Support System for Mechanical Parts Standardization : 1st Report, Standardization of Mechanical Parts by Using Macro Function

It is very important to standardize mechanical parts as productivity increases. But, this is a very difficult subject, because there are a lot of kinds of different mechanical parts, and the mechanical parts are very complicated. Therefore, we have developed a support system, which standardizes the mechanical parts. The mechanical parts can divide into several components, and it is relatively easy to standardize these components. We built an individual standardization data base for each component, and link these data bases into a system. The system used a macro function, which records a series of operations of three-dimensional CAD system. This paper describes the methods for standardizing the mechanical parts by the macro function, with an emphasis on the method for building the standardization data base automatically, the method for generating a frame of input and output formats, and so on