Direct slicing of STEP based NURBS models for layered manufacturing

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 387-397

  Starly, B ^a   Lau, A ^a   Sun, W ^a   Lau, W ^b   Bradbury, T ^b  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b Therics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomodeling; Direct slicing; Layered manufacturing; Medical rapid prototyping; Solid freeform fabrication

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LAYERED MANUFACTURING; LITHOGRAPHY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; STANDARDS; TISSUE;

BIOMODELING; COMPUTER-AIDED TISSUE ENGINEERING; DIRECT SLICING; MEDICAL RAPID PROTOTYPING;

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 10644249009     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cad.2004.06.014     Document Type: Article

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