A geometric algorithm for selecting optimal set of cutters for multi-part milling

Proceedings of the Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 130-139

  Yao, Z ^a   Gupta, S K ^a   Nau, D S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided process planning; Milling cutter selection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; OPTIMIZATION;

MILLING CUTTERS;

MILLING (MACHINING);

EID: 0034832751     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/376957.376973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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