Review on Approaches to Generate Assembly Sequences by Extraction of Assembly Features from 3D Models

The path from a virtual 3D assembly model to an automatically generated assembly sequence is, until this day, linked to a number of challenges. For the start, the greatest challenge at this point is the reading of assembly features out of a 3D model, followed by the detection of assembly coherences based on these features and finally the systematization and analyzation of the individual part relations. Based on these topics, several approaches will be discussed and tested with a continuous use case.