Multi-direction slicing for layered manufacturing

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 129-142

  Singh, Prabhjot ^a   Dutta, Debasish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Layered manufacturing; Multi Direction Slicing; Surface accuracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003236362     PISSN: 15309827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1375816     Document Type: Article

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