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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES & RESEARCH
TECHNOLOGY
Developing a GUI based Design Software in VB Environment to Integrate with
CREO for Design and Modeling using Case Study of Coupling
Indrajitsinh J. Jadeja*1, Kirankumar M. Bhuptani2
*1
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Atmiya Institute of technology and science, Rajkot
Gujarat, India
2
Principal, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Atmiya Institute of technology and science
for diploma study, Rajkot Gujarat, India
[email protected]
Abstract
The Research Work is carried out on the approach of a CADD (Computer Aided Design and Drafting) and
Concurrent engineering. Because with the use of this developed system all phase of product development Design,
modeling and analysis is work on a bench. The work reviews the procedural steps involved in the design of couplings
and the development of the software package using visual basic as a tool for the design. This system is carried out on
the case study of flange coupling and standard design equation being carried out together with the use of programming
software and use CREO as modeling software after getting output from the designing software.

Keywords: Automated design and modeling, CADD, Excel Analysis, GUI, Parametric Approach.
Introduction
In a Recent scenario of Research and VB (Visual Basic). It will give us better frame work
development wing of any industry are to be working for a designing input base as well as easily interface
on a atomization of Design and drafting with ease. with intermediate software like Excel, access, notpad
Because we know that when we increasing the which are to be providing a input to a other Modelling
productivity of Design and modeling phase in the or analysis software as said above.
product design development, we save much time and After selecting languages which are to be
it will be further utilize for a next Phases of product useful for developing design software, the next stage
design and development. There are number of is to selecting a mechanical component for case study
software is available for drafting and modeling as well for run the software and get output. For this first we
as for analysis like AutoCad,Pro-engineering,Solid had been selecting a component coupling which are
works,Ansys etc.But not specific software is available has a assembly of three different components Key,
for Design a Product. So By this Dissertation approach Shaft, coupling and also some standard fastening
we will made a one tailor-made software which are component bolt and nut. As we know that coupling is
useful for designing a specific component and output used for transmitting a power and as well as joining
of the software is easily being integrating with other and support the shaft structure. Another reason behind
software of Modelling and analysis which said above. the selection of coupling is that a Rajkot industry as
For the develop a tailor-made software we well as nearer to Rajkot industries are hub of
required a programming language which are to be automobile industries and coupling is a integral part of
useful in making of a calculation of designing said automobile. so this software can easily utilize by a
input parameter. In the computer science there are industries.
number of computer language available like There are different type of coupling is available in
C,C++,Java, Visual Basis etc.. market on the basis of it’s application solid coupling,
Stage-I had been selecting a programming sleeve coupling, split-muff coupling, flange coupling
language is C++ for designing purpose, but there are etc.Among them we had been selected a coupling type
Problem regarding the interfacing with other Unprotected type flange coupling for a case study
database with the use of above said language so, we approach. Before the actual work being started , we
will be switch over to another Programming Language had been review the different research paper which are

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to be published on the study of automated designing  Design Variable and Equation
and drafting approach with differential mechanical  Programming Structure and Frame Work
component.
Integration Phase
Methodology Modelling Phase
The following mention flow chart shows the  Prepared a solid model of all component
how the tailor-made software will be developed each  Assembled all component
step being easily mention in the figure.  Integrated with 2nd Phase

Design Phase
In this stage of the interfacing system
selection of the mechanical component and
programming language being done. For selecting a
programming language, required of fulfillment of two
criteria first is software based on a GUI (Graphics User
Interface) and second requirement is, database
integration with tailor made software. There are many
programming language available in computer science
which fulfillment the above two criteria like Visual
Basic, C++, Java etc. among the we have been
selecting a VB because in VB there a library function
of excel as well as access which are used for
integration purpose with the database which are to be
prepared in excel or in a access. we had been selecting
a Coupling for a software preparation because the
coupling to be standardized as well as coupling has a
four integral part viz. shaft, key, coupling, bolt and
Nut. There are a wide variety of couplings available in
the market like Sleeve and muff coupling, Protected
type flange coupling, Bush type coupling and
universal coupling. Among them protected type flange
coupling being selected for case study. figure of flange
coupling is as shown below with part list.

Fig 2.1 methodology

We had been prepared for a developing a

designing software for a case study of coupling and
designating language is selection as a Visual basic 6.0
, for integrating of data with Modelling software I used
a intermediate software is Microsoft excel and for
Modelling , analysis purpose selecting a pro-
engineering wildfire software. After selection process
is being complete selecting a methodology for carried
out dissertation work step by step. Stage of Fig 3.1 Protected type flange coupling
methodology is as given below.
After successfully selection of mechanical
Design Phase component for designing next stage is to be collected
 Selecting a Programming Language data regarding to which parameter is being used as
 Selecting a Machine Component input and which is as output according to the
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application of the component. As we selecting a
component Flange Coupling on the basis of the
application of its input power. Selecting a input
variable as a Power, rpm of the shaft & shear stress
for hub material, bolt material and Key. For the output
variable I had been selecting a shaft diameter, key size
(width & depth) , number of bolt required for flange
coupling, P.C.D of the bolt, Hub diameter, Outside
diameter of the coupling, bolt diameter, Hub length ,
flange thickness and mean radius.
List of the Input variable and output variable
against its notation which are to be as given below
Input Variable:-

Power (Kw) = P
Revolution (rpm) = N
Shear Stress for Hub (Mpa)= τ1
Shear Stress for Bolt (Mpa) = τ2
Shear Stress for Key (Mpa) = τ3

Output Variable with design equations:-

Torque (T) = (P * 60 * 1000) / (2 * π * N) * Sf

Shaft Dia. (d) ={(16 * T * 1000) / (2 * π * τ1 ) }^0.3333
Number of Bolt required n = 0.02d +3
P.C.D. of the flange (D1) = 2d
Hub diameter (D2) = 1.5d
Outside diameter (D3) = 3d Fig 3.2 Design Module
Bolt diameter (d1) = {(8 * T) / (π * τ1* D3)} ^ 0.5
Hub length (L) = 1.25d Integration Phase
We are shown in the above design phase still
Mean Radius (rm) = (D3 +d / 2) output of the design module in the form of a VB data
Flange thickness (t) = 0.25d so that we required a tool which can give the output
data in the form of a printable file so that we can easily
In the 3rd stage of the system is the prepared used that data for further study. For purpose of the
a frame work and programming structure for the output file we are selecting tools Microsoft excel
design phase. for this task we used a Visual Basic as a because it can be easily generated databases and also
programming language, Because Visual basic connected with a any Modelling software.
programming language is user interface language and Protected type flange coupling is standard
easily being integrated with other software. Typical component. So for selecting a standard value required
view of the software which are as given below. to prepare a database related to the variable. In protect
type flange coupling all the variable (which are to be
mention above) are get to be standardized on the basis
of Diameter of the shaft. For preparation of the
database we required a referred a standard, so the
referred a IS standard related to a flange coupling
.Selected a three standard database Coupling
Database, Key Databases and nut and bolt database.
Lastly afterward prepared a design output sheet in
Microsoft excels which are as given below.

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flange coupling has a following SIX component to
require a modeling.
1. SHAFT
2. FLANGE COUPLING (MALE)
3. FLANGE COUPLING (FEMALE)
4. BOLT
5. NUT
6. RECTANGULAR SUNK KEY
Final assembly of six component is as shown given
below.

Fig 4.1 Design Output

As seen the above figure there are all variable
of each component showing the two value one is the Fig 5.1 Assembly in CREO
design value which is to be getting from a design phase
related to a stress analysis and second one is the Now in the Final stage of the tailor made
standardized value related to a shaft diameter value. system. In this stage each model viz. shaft, coupling,
key, bolt and nut are to be integrated separately. The
Modelling Phase whole procedure of the linkup is shown step by step in
It is the final stage of the developed system is below figures.
preparing a 3-dimensional solid model of the
protective type flange coupling. as we know that now
a days there are a wide variety of Modelling software
available in the market. So for the selection of the 1
Modelling software is very much difficult task. each
Modelling software has it’s own special feature so for
our study we have to be selected a software which has
a parametric feature because the dimension of the
output stage of design phase as well as integrated
phase is variable in nature. We had been selected a
parametric software CREO which is parametric and
6
nature as well as it could be integrated with the excel
2
database. This phase completing in the following
manner.
For integration purpose we are required a first 4
3
model of all components because for compare 5
Modelling variable with design parameter so that the
model can generated as per design. Protected type Fig 5.2 Integration of CREO with Excel

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Step 1:- using Excel analysis feature in Creo Load the
excel file which contain the all parameter related to a
integrated phase output
Step 2:- Select the all cell related to a Modelling
parameter.
Step 3:- Compute the selected value as so the all
nomenclatures related to model dimensions
Step 4:- Updated the excel sheet using output file of
2nd phase against nomenclature.
Step 5:- Finally add the feature using Add feature
button
Step 6:- Now Feature is to be shown in the Model tree.
Step 7:- The Above mention procedure is repeated to
the all solid model .part file for integration purpose.
After the integration is completed just
regenerated model and updated the dimensions as per
2nd phase output.

Case Study
Design and modeling a Couple to
Transmitted a power 30 KW at 300 rpm. Take shear
stress for shaft material is 40 N/mm2, for Key 60
N/mm2 & for Hub 8 N/mm2.

(i) Step I
Start simulator Design-Modelling software
and enter the all variable given in the problem. The
typical figure is shown as given below

Fig 6.2 output parameter in Design output module

(iii) Step III

Now next step is to be transfer the all value
to a excel for link up. For this task press on the “Print-
Output” button. After clicking you get the output file
in the excel format with both design value as well as
standard value. Fig 6.3 shows the step III operation.

Fig 6.1 Input parameters in design module

(ii) Step II
After applying the all value click on the Design button
to get output this is to be shown in the fig
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Regenerate the model

Edit the Feature

Fig 6.4 Regenerate the Model

Step IV is repeated for the entire model till

the entire model is regenerated. After that just open the
assembly file it will also automatically regenerated.

Scope of the Work

 As we know that there are number of research
is being done on the shaft coupling for the
design with theoretical approach and the all
result is put together for the user of the
engineer and also one software is also made
for the coupling is coupling cad on the
platform of java but is research had been
limited to design phase only. But the
approach of this dissertation system I
elaborated its work to a 3d-parametric
modeling and also a structure analysis. So the
development of the component is being
Fig 6.3 Excel Integration with standard database easily concluded and gives better result for
the said component.
(iv) Step IV  This system provides a KBS (Knowledge
Now next step is to be open the all model viz. base System) to a industries. Because as we
shaft, key, coupling male & female, bolt and nut in know that persons who are working the
Modelling software. After open the model just edit the industries as own limitation so If the person
feature which are to be related to integrated phase file leave the industries the work can being easily
regenerated the model you see the all dimensions of adopted by any newly person appointed.
the model is changed. For that study here we give a  Company which would not use any kind of
just one component example in the figure 6.4. modeling software this system would be play
the key role in the development of the above
said component.
 As design and modeling consume the more
time in the development of the component, so
with the use of this system with ease save
much more time of the industries so that time
will be used for reaming stage of the
development.
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