Parametric Design William Foil Tyler Kennedy Advisors: Dr. ma and Dr. Saadeh Professor: Dr. Koutsougeras ET-494, Senior Design

3-D Parametric Design 3-D parametric design is a modeling approach that uses parameters to define features and relationships between parts SOLIDWORKS is our chosen 3-D design software

Earlier Objectives: Create program for Hydrolox that will generate a 3-D Traveling Water Screen. Would have aided in quickly editing part parameters Create plant layout optimization program for Lapeyre Stair Would have automatically placed platforms to fill predetermined boundaries

Earlier Objectives Cont. Above: Hydrlox program GUI Right: Lapeyre Stair plant optimization program.

Current Objective: Continue work on plant optimization program Fine-tune new MATLAB program Link VBA and MATLAB programs

Relevance to Engineering Program Design Project Management

What We Accomplished Created basic MATLAB and Visual Basic (VBA) Graphical User Interface (GUI) Establish connection between MATLAB, Microsoft Excel, and SOLIDWORKS Created a user interface to re-dimension a predefined object in SOLIDWORKS Establish connections between VBA and SOLIDWORKS Ported MATLAB program to VBA

Timeline 1/27/16—Met with advisors and discussed new program 2/3/16—Met with advisors to discuss advancement of program 2/5/16—Proposal presentation 2/14/16—Turn in Proposal and PowerPoint 3/9/16—Example of working program 4/13/16—Example of project 5/4/16—Final Presentations

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