Collision-free 3-axis milling and selection of cutting tools

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 225-232

  Glaeser, Georg ^a   Wallner, Johannes ^b   Pottmann, Helmut ^b  

^a Univ Angew Kunst Wien   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUTTING TOOLS; MACHINE DESIGN; MILLING (MACHINING); OPTIMIZATION;

OFFSET SURFACES;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0032650834     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4485(99)00018-4     Document Type: Article

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