Feature-based assembly mating reasoning

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 187-202

  Wang, Eric ^a   Kim, Yong Se ^a,b  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly Sequence; Feature Recognition; Mating Feature; Mating Relation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003303197     PISSN: 02786125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-6125(99)80031-4     Document Type: Article

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