A strategy for machining interacting features using spatial reasoning

International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 269-278

  Pal, Pralay ^a   Tigga, A M ^b   Kumar, A ^b  

^a TATA TECHNOLOGIES LTD   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Boolean volume; Continued product; Disconnected feature; Feature recognition; Material removal rate; NC code; Optimised machining; Solid modeling

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN VOLUME; CONTINUED PRODUCTS; DISCONNECTED FEATURE; FRACTURE RECOGNITION; MATERIAL REMOVAL RATE; NC CODE; OPTIMIZED MACHINING; SOLID MODELING;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LIFE CYCLE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

MACHINING;

EID: 10444285023     PISSN: 08906955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmachtools.2004.08.010     Document Type: Article

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