Nebaykina

The work covers a method and its software implementation for the optimum design based on API SolidWorks. Optimization functions are approximated step by step by simplified analytical functions the analysis of which does not demand greater computing expenses. The application is realized as the AddIn DLL-module with COM-interface to SolidWorks. Thus SolidWorks is used by the program as a processor to define current parameters of the model and also as pre- and the postprocessor. To illustrate the work gif-animations are included in the paper.