Abstract
This research is to develop computer aided design
(CAD) software, the CU-Solid. The software covers various type of 3-D solid modeling techniques based on the Parasolid kernel under Windows 2000 platform. This software can be used for creating and modifying solid models using Parametric Feature-Based technology. The supporting features included are extrusion, extrusion cutout, revolution, revolution cutout, swept, swept cutout, loft, loft cutout, fillet, chamfer and hollow. The Parasolid Transmission XT format is used as the main data format for storing the solid data. This data format is compatible with many commercial packages using the Parasolid kernel as modeler.
To verify the compatibility of the data format, with commercial packages, Unigraphics, SolidEdge, and
SolidWorks, are used as reference system. These commercial packages based on the same Parasolid kernel. The results shown that the CU-Solid can import and export the commercial packages data files correctly.