Finding undercut-free parting directions for polygons with curved edges

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 60-68

  McMains, Sara ^a   Chen, Xiaorui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Casting; Computational geometry; Computer aided design; Moldability; Molding; Parting direction; Undercut

Indexed keywords

MOLDABILITY; PARTING DIRECTION; REUSABLE MOLDS; UNDERCUT;

ALGORITHMS; CASTING; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EDGE DETECTION; GRAPH THEORY; MOLDING;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 33645689924     PISSN: 15309827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2164450     Document Type: Article

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