A Design Perspective of Mechanical Function and its Object-Oriented Representation Scheme

Engineering with Computers

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 309-320

  Deng, Y M ^a   Britton, G A ^a   Tor, S B ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Function representation; Mechanical function; Object oriented technology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PRODUCT DESIGN;

INCR TCL/TK PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0032319815     PISSN: 01770667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01201762     Document Type: Article

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