Software compensation of rapid prototyping machines

Precision Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 280-292

  Tong, Kun ^a   Lehtihet, E Amine ^a   Joshi, Sanjay ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Parametric modeling; Rapid prototyping; Software error compensation; STL files

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR COMPENSATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TOOLS;

PARAMETRIC MODELING; SOFTWARE ERROR COMPENSATION; STL FILES;

RAPID PROTOTYPING;

EID: 2942711840     PISSN: 01416359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precisioneng.2003.11.003     Document Type: Article

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