Automated three-dimensional design of the chuck of core drilling rigs

Abstract

Numerous construction projects have caused the rapid development of the drilling industry in China. Various types of drilling equipment are widely used in the projects and have to be designed quickly to meet the increasing demand. Based on the initial modeling, macro recording, program compilation, and interface development in the SolidWorks and Visual Basic environment, this article introduces a new method of automated design using specialty automated design software for the chuck of core drilling rigs. This secondary developed software can quickly perform design for the parts and assembly of the chuck after inputting only several parameters of the work requirements. This software simplifies and automates the design process to a great extent by embedding the laborious computing tasks into the computer program and eliminating manual drafting work. This makes the designer focus more on the work requirements, instead of modeling, drafting, calculating, and so on. This can decrease the repetitive work of mechanical designers and increase their working efficiency.