Abstract
In a hydraulic cylinder each cylinder component contributes to the total function, and the components interact and are dependent on each other. The geometry of some components can be completely determined by other surrounding interacting components. In this work it is shown how computer aid can be applied in hydraulic cylinder design when considering component interaction.
A special hydraulic cylinder product model is developed. It is stored in an external CAD system independent data base. The parameters stored in the data base are used when retrieving component data from component family data bases, standard component data bases, and when running parametric component and system design programs.
The software system used in this work consists of an ordinary 2D wire frame modeling turn-key CAD system, FORTRAN application programs, a data base management system, CAD system independent data bases and CAD system dependent interface programs.
