Efficient NC simulation for multi-axis solid machining with a universal APT cutter

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1-10

  Yau, Hong Tzong ^a   Tsou, Lee Sen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adaptive voxel model; APT cutter; Implicit function; NC simulation

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS; ALIASING EFFECTS; APT CUTTER; BOUNDARY SURFACES; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN MODELS; FIVE-AXIS; HIGH PRECISION; IMPLICIT FUNCTION; MACHINED SURFACE; MARCHING CUBE ALGORITHM; MATERIAL WASTES; MEMORY SPACE; MULTI-AXIS; MULTI-AXIS MACHINING; NC SIMULATION; NC-MACHINING; NUMERICAL CONTROL; SCULPTURED SURFACES; SIMULATION ACCURACY; SIMULATION PROCEDURES; TOOL GEOMETRY; VOXEL DATA STRUCTURES; VOXEL MODELS; VOXEL REPRESENTATION; WORK PIECES;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CUTTING TOOLS; DATA STRUCTURES; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR DETECTION; MACHINING; MILLING MACHINES; SURFACES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77954651949     PISSN: 15309827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3130231     Document Type: Article

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