Computer-aided design (CAD) for the translation of geometric data to numerical control (NC) programs for manufacturing systems

Operational Methods in Computer-Aided Design: Computer-Aided Design, Engineering, and Manufacturing: Systems Techniques and Applications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2000, Pages 2-1-2-37

  Loh, Han Tong ^a   Neo, Ken Soon ^a   Wong, Yoke San ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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