Development of an Application for Design Automation in KOMPAS-3D: Quality Control Table for Base Metal

The complexity of compiling quality control tables for base metal TB1 in order to design nuclear power products arises from the necessity to take into account a plenty of requirements from various sources (which may overlap or complement each other): for example, standards such as industry standards (IS/OST), building codes (BC/SNiP), technical specifications, customer requirements, internal rules for their completion, and other regulatory documents. Incorrectly prepared documents submitted to an authorized quality control organization (an entity authorized to conduct conformity assessment in the form of acceptance testing of products intended for use in components of nuclear energy facilities in the Russian Federation) result in financial and time losses for the developer, as well as difficulties in further product acceptance. This paper discloses the development process of a user application (library) that enables the automatic generation and construction of a quality control table for base metal TB1 on the basis of a drawing document in KOMPAS-3D. The application code (library) for KOMPAS-3D CAD is developed using Delphi, and it implements automated generation of tables TB1 necessary in designing equipment for the nuclear energy sector. One of the key characteristics of a modern engineering simulation system is the ability to integrate automation, for instance, by using subsystems to expand the software package's capabilities, such as user applications (custom programming libraries). This paper formulates the main requirements for the functionality of the user application (library) for KOMPAS-3D. The application code enables reading data from an assembly file opened in KOMPAS-3D, creating a new drawing document, generating a table according to TB1 requirements, and filling it with data from the assembly document.