A small feature suppression/unsuppression system for preparing b-rep models for analysis

ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, SM

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 113-124

  Lee, K Y ^a   Armstrong, C G ^a   Price, M A ^a   Lamont, J H ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b TranscenData Europe Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analysis model derivation; Audit trail; CAD model simplification; Feature reinstatement; Feature suppression; Idealisation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; TOPOLOGY;

ANALYSIS MODEL DERIVATION; AUDIT TRAIL; FEATURE SUPPRESSION; IDEALIZATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 30944464630     PISSN: 18117783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1060244.1060258     Document Type: Conference Paper

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