Research and development of aluminum welded joints library based on Pro/Toolkit

MI Xiao-zhen1， YU Yi-chun1， WANG Xu-long2
（1. School of Traffic and Transportation Engineering， Dalian Jiaotong University， Dalian 116028，China；
2. School of Mechanical Engineering， Dalian Jiaotong University， Dalian 116028， China）

Abstract： Aiming at the problems in the design of aluminum welded joints for railway vehicles，such as lacking standardized management and repetition modeling，a 3D model library of aluminum welded joints was designed and developed，which realized the effective management for 3D joint models and their corresponding data information. The parameterized template models were created under the Pro/E system，a database was built by using Microsoft Access，at the same time，the communication among the Pro/E system was solved by using ADO database access interface technology，the menu and user operation interfaces were implemented using the relevant functions called by Pro/Toolkit application in VC ++. The results indicate that it can be convenient to build car-body model，rich the e joint models according to the user demand and realize the seriation design，improve the efficiency of the joint design.
Key words： aluminum welded joints； parameterization； Pro/Toolkit； data base