A data front-end for layered manufacturing

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 231-243

  Barequet, Gill ^a,c,d   Kaplan, Yuval ^b,e,f  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b Cubital Ltd of Israel   (Israel)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e Cubital Ltd of Israel   (Israel)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geometric software; Layered manufacturing; Polyhedra; Rapid prototyping

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STRUCTURES; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

DATA FRONT END; FILE FORMAT; GEOMETRIC SOFTWARE; LAYERED MANUFACTURING; POLYHEDRAL;

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0032046908     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4485(97)00076-6     Document Type: Article

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