A Design Method Based on Extraction of Key Points of the Contours of Agricultural Machinery’s Internal Structure: A Case Study on the Design of a Small Self-Propelled Square Baler

Abstract:

Refer to Reverse Engineering of extracting points cloud to generate a digital model, the paper proposes a rational method to design agricultural machinery's appearance. Depending on the product's internal structure contours, we can extract several key points and connect them by four ways: straight lines connecting, arcs connecting, free curves connecting and data fitting. Then we choose and modify the connected lines by a unified style to get the main profile of the machinery, which can better match the structural components. In the end a small self-propelled square baler's design process was presented to describe and testify the method.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 215-216)
• Pages: 372-377
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.215-216.372
• Online since: November 2012
• Authors: Sha Liu, Yun Qi Wang, Xiao Gang Ma, De Cheng Wang
• Keywords: Agricultural Machinery, Curve Fitting, Design, Key Point

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