Development of an automatic part feature extraction and classification system taking CAD data as input

Computers in Industry

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 137-150

  Liu, Shu Chu ^a   Gonzalez, Miguel ^a   Chen, Jen Gwo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

CAD; CAM; CAPP; Feature extraction; IGES

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MANUFACTURING DATA PROCESSING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED PROCESS PLANNING; INITIAL GRAPHICS EXCHANGE SPECIFICATION FORMAT; WORKPIECES;

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030213627     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-3615(95)00081-X     Document Type: Article

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