Dealing with feature interactions for prismatic parts in STEP-NC

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 431-445

  Mokhtar, Alireza ^a   Xu, Xun ^b   Lazcanotegui, Iñigo ^c  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Feature interaction; Feature precedence; Process planning; STEP NC

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; CUTTING TOOLS; PROCESS PLANNING;

FEATURE INTERACTIONS; FEATURE PRECEDENCE; FEATURE-BASED PROCESS PLANNING; GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINT; MACHINING FEATURE; OPTIMAL SEQUENCE; STEP-NC; TECHNOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 67749134001     PISSN: 09565515     EISSN: 15728145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10845-008-0144-y     Document Type: Article

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