N-Rep: A neutral feature representation to support feature mapping and data exchange across applications

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 599-609

  Medichalam, Madhu S ^a   Shah, Jami J ^a   D'Souza, Roshan ^b  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA TRANSFER; MAPPING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; TOPOLOGY;

FACE ADJACENCY GRAPH (FAG); FEATURE MAPPING; GEOMETRIC WORKBENCH; PARSER;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 14044249371     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/detc2004-57712     Document Type: Conference Paper

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