Manufacturing feature determination and extraction - Part II: A heuristic approach

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 475-484

  Dong, Jian ^a   Vijayan, Sreedharan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Electronic Data Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

CAD CAM; Feature extraction; Optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001273832     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4485(96)00073-5     Document Type: Article

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