Smoothing STL files by Max-Fit biarc curves for rapid prototyping

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 186-203

  Koc, Bahattin ^a   Ma, Yawei ^b   Lee, Yuan Shin ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Rapid prototyping; Stereolithography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NOZZLES;

GENERATOR CURVES; LAYER-BY-LAYER; RAPID PROTOTYPING (RP); STEREOLITHOGRAPHY;

SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

EID: 7444239884     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552540010337065     Document Type: Article

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