Virtual prototyping of mold design: Geometric mouldability analysis for near-net-shape manufactured parts by feature recognition and geometric reasoning

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 137-154

  Yin, ZhouPing ^a   Ding, Han ^a   Xiong, YouLun ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIFE CYCLE; PATTERN MATCHING; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; VIRTUAL REALITY;

GEOMETRIC MOULDABILITY ANALYSIS; GEOMETRIC REASONING; NON-DIRECTIONAL BLOCKING GRAPH (NDBG);

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0035254741     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4485(00)00084-1     Document Type: Article

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