Methods in Product Design

Chapter  5

A Semi-Integration System of CAD and Inspection Planning of Standard Manufactured Features

Emad S. Abouel Nasr,^1,2 Abdulrahman Al-Ahmari,¹ and Osama Abdulhameed¹

¹Industrial Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

²Mechanical Engineering Department, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt

CONTENTS

Abstract

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Review of Prior Related Research

5.3 The Proposed Methodology

5.3.1 Automatic Feature Extraction Module (AFEM)

5.3.1.1 Feature Extraction from IGES File Format

5.3.1.2 Feature Extraction from STEP File Format

5.3.2 Development of Automatic Inspection Module (AIM)

5.3.2.1 Database Module

5.3.2.2 Developing the Integration between CAD and CAI

5.3.2.3 Generating the ...