Recognition of machining features and feature topologies from NC programs

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 605-616

  Yan, X ^a   Yamazaki, K ^a   Liu, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MACHINING; NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; REVERSE ENGINEERING; TOPOLOGY;

FEATURE RECOGNITION; MACHINING OPERATION PLANNING;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0033723691     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4485(00)00045-2     Document Type: Article

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