User-Oriented and visualized optimization for crane design

Traditional optimization methods suffer from hardness to inspect and control during the process. To solve the problem, the paper discussed a useroriented and visualized optimization, which shows the result in drawing form by emulation and can control the process by the operator. This technique has been used in overhead crane CAD software as a post-process for traditional optimization and leads to a good result of what you see is what you get. So, the design focused on specialized machine, user-oriented, automation, visualization will be the tendency for the optimization design software. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015.