A Study on the Shape Design Method Based on the Function Decomposition

• Main Authors: Yang-Chih Lin, 林揚智
• Other Authors: Nien-Te Liu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63831711882927483207

碩士 === 樹德科技大學 === 應用設計研究所 === 92 === In the past, the shape design process relied on the industrial designer’s Black Boxes to produce a lot of conceptions, among which not all were reasonable and feasibility. This study proposes a systematic product shape design method which can derive a great quantity of reasonable shape ideas, based on the decomposition of product function and replace each product function with a rectangle to clearly define the evolution-word through the analysis about the relationship on word corresponding to the shape-evolution. There are four phases in this study, which includes record collection, prophase research, process construct of shape design method and demonstration. In the phase of the record collection, it mainly collects the records of shape and functional design method to confer; In the phase of prophase research, it is to acquire the primary evolution form of each shape through decomposed and logical inference of the shape of product, and then to acquire the suitable evolution-word in product shape development by way of the questionnaire investigation. After then, it further acquires the representative evolution-word corresponding to each pair of shape-evolution by AHP; In the phase of process construct of shape design method, it takes the mobile phone as living example to construct a shape-design method based on function decomposition; In the phase of demonstration, it proofs that proposed process of shape design method with lighter. This study proposes a shape design method based on the functional decomposition, recombination, evolution, and integrates the notion of 3-View Drawing to construct a systematic shape design method. The result reveals that it can acquire much more reasonable shape conceptions, some of the which are similar with existing mobile phone products. Thus, it further proves that this shape design method can be applied in the industrial circles.