Design-led component selection

Q. J. Harmer, P. M. Weaver, K. M. Wallace

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Abstract

Designers are under increasing pressure to deliver better, cheaper products in less time. To the designer of low-volume or one-off products, using past designs and catalogued components is often essential. Little software support exists early in the design process for designers wanting to use catalogued components. Most information on off-the-shelf solutions has to be gleaned from component manufacturers catalogues. Searching a large number of paper- or computer-based catalogues soon becomes unwieldy and inefficient. This paper describes a method to assist designers in selecting components early in the design process.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)391-405
Number of pages15
JournalCAD Computer Aided Design
Volume30
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1998
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Component selection
  • Design
  • Graphical interaction, constraints

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