Automatic Conceptual Design for Mechanical System by Zooming out Design Rules

This paper presents a computerized rule based method for creative conceptual design of mechanisms.By defining and zooming out the design rules based on design requirements with the concept generator in VCM1.0 system,the desired creative symbol schemes of mechanisms are obtained automatically.The research shows that the concept generator in VCM1.0 system can fuifil creative conceptual design for general mechanical system.