Repairing triangular meshes for reverse engineering applications

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 667-683

  Lai, Jiing Yih ^a   Lai, Hou Chuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Erroneous facets; Reverse engineering; STL data

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; DEFECTS; ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ERRONEOUS FACETS; NON-MANIFOLD VERTICES; SELF-INTERSECTION; STL DATA;

REVERSE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33746271859     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2006.01.008     Document Type: Article

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