Representation and reasoning of geometric tolerances in design

Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing: AIEDAM

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 325-341

  Tsai, Jhy Cherng ^a   Cutkosky, Mark R ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing; Geometric Tolerance; Tolerance Reasoning; Tolerance Representation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; QUALITY CONTROL;

GEOMETRIC TOLERANCES;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0031233934     PISSN: 08900604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0890060400003255     Document Type: Article

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