Finding all undercut-free parting directions for extrusions

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4077 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 514-527

  Chen, Xiaorui ^a   McMains, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CASTING; EXTRUSION; EXTRUSION MOLDING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ARBITRARY GEOMETRIES; CASTING PROCESSES; POLYHEDRAL PARTS; UNDERCUT-FREE PARTING DIRECTIONS (UFPD);

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 33749350401     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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