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Punches and dies are the real operating components and account for a large portion in the progressive die design procedure. This paper presents a structural design tool for punches and dies for progressive dies of motor core based on functional component. The descriptive model of punch and die component is established which contains three aspect of information, geometry information, assembly-related constraint attribute and hole-related information on plates. Based on the classification and 3D modeling method of punches and dies, the library of components for punches and dies is set up according to the descriptive model. Methods for modeling and data management for components of punches and dies are discussed in detail. The proposed tool for progressive die for motor cores can complete the design of five classes of punches and dies and generate holes on plates automatically. This design tool is constructed on a PC and integrated with a SolidWorks CAD system. The progressive die design for the motor core of house appliance is employed as a practical example to demonstrate the effectiveness of the design tool. The results reveal that it can dramatically improve the design quality and can save both time and costs.

There are a lot of holes in a progressive die for mounting inserts, assembles, and standards. This paper gives the classification of plate holes of progressive die design according to their structural types and relationships between the correlating parts and the plate holes and describes an automated hole design system for progressive dies. Taking advantage of prebuilt design knowledge and standard parts database, this system is able to generate the correlated holes on the main plates of progressive dies, such as upper die shoes, lower die shoes, stripper plates, punch plates, die plates, punch backing plates, and die backing plates according to the inserted parts or functional assembles. A descriptive model is set up. The feature library technology is adopted to develop the function for the design of plate holes, which can improve the efficiency and shorten the design cycle. The hole design system is built on the top of SolidWorks, taking advantage of its built-in modules, including part, assembly, and drawing. We use progressive die for motor core as concrete examples to demonstrate the power of our system. Experimental results show that our system cannot only improve the design quality but also reduce the design time and cost.

It is necessary to smooth point cloud data in reverse engineering or the inspection of free-form surfaces because noisy points will have a negative influence on the post-processing of this data. The big problem in smoothing point cloud data is how to solve the dilemma between removing noisy points and keeping feature boundary information, whilst controlling the diffusiveness of noisy points. In this paper, the theory of anisotropic heat conduction is adopted to establish a mathematical model of point cloud data smoothing. The point cloud data can be considered as a temperature field with an adiabatic boundary. So the heat is only conducted inside the temperature filed and has no effect on the outer side. For point cloud data, it means that the smoothing is only on the local area, which makes a good balance between deleting noisy points and keeping feature boundary information. The method has been implemented by using two cases for practical application, and the result proves its efficiency.