Kinematics Analysis and Simulation of a Shaper Mechanism Based on UG NX8.0

MOTION module of UG NX 8.0 is embedded with powerful ADAMS solver which can integrate modeling, simulation and analysis together, and the mutual transformation of various softwares is no longer required. This paper models the truss structure of a shaper mechanism in UG, and conducts kinematics simulated analysis. And the result is consistent with the result of the classical theoretical calculation, which verifies the reliability of UG NX8.0 MOTION module in the rigid body kinematics analysis. This paper proposes that convenient and rapid information software of advanced manufacturing industry, instead of the traditional complex theoretical calculation method, should be promoted and applied to solve the practical problems of engineering design.