Tool profile and tool path calculation for free-form thick-layered fabrication

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 30, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 1097-1110

  Horváth, Imre ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}   Vergeest, Joris S M ^g,h,i   Broek, Johan J ^g   Rusák, Zoltán ^c,g   De Smit, Bram ^e,g,j  

^a FACULTY OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENGINEERING   (Netherlands)

^b Dept of Comp Aided Des and Mfg ^*  (Netherlands)

^c BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^d Hung Shipyards and Crane Factory   (Netherlands)

^e TU Institute of Building Constructions and Sanitary Engineering Budapest   (Hungary)

^f INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^g DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^h RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

ⁱ CERN   (Switzerland)

^j HTS Vlissingen   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

Cutter path generation; Cutter profiles; Hermite interpolation; Layered manufacturing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; INTERPOLATION; LAYERED MANUFACTURING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CUTTER PATH GENERATION; HERMITE INTERPOLATION;

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0032277619     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4485(98)00068-2     Document Type: Article

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