A reverse glue approach to automated construction of multi-piece molds

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 219-230

  Chen, Yong ^a   Rosen, David W ^b  

^a 3D Systems   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated construction; Geometric reasoning; Injection mold; Rapid tooling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INJECTION MOLDING; PLASTIC MOLDS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; THERMOPLASTICS;

AUTOMATED CONSTRUCTION; AUTOMATED MOLD DESIGN; GEOMETRIC REASONING; MULTI PIECE MOLDS; RAPID TOOLING; REVERSE GLUE METHOD;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0141918607     PISSN: 15309827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1603308     Document Type: Article

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