Geometric algorithms for computing cutter engagement functions in 2.5D milling operations

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1469-1480

  Gupta, Satyandra K ^a   Saini, Sunil K ^b   Spranklin, Brent W ^c   Yao, Zhiyang ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Delmia Solutions Pvt Ltd   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cutter engagement; Cutter path planning; Feed rate adjustments

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUTTING TOOLS;

CUTTER ENGAGEMENT; CUTTER PATH PLANNING; FEED RATE ADJUSTMENTS;

MILLING (MACHINING);

EID: 24344464918     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cad.2005.03.001     Document Type: Article

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