Circular hole recognition for STL-based toolpath generation

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 132-139

  Qu, Xiuzhi ^a   Stucker, Brent ^b  

^a BobCAD CAM   (United States)

^b Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Material removal processes; Programming and algorithm theory; Surface treatment

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER CONTROL; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; MACHINING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; SURFACE TREATMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TOOLS; TOPOLOGY;

CIRCULAR HOLE RECOGNITIONS; MATERIAL-REMOVAL PROCESSES; PROGRAMMING AND ALGORITHM THEORY; TOOLPATH GENERATIONS;

RAPID PROTOTYPING;

EID: 20444473166     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552540510601255     Document Type: Article

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