Validity maintenance for freeform feature modeling

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-14

  van den Berg, Eelco ^a   Bronsvoort, Willem F ^a  

^a Department of Microelectronics   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Constraint solving and checking; Feature modeling; Freeform features; Geometric properties; Validity conditions; Validity maintenance

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT SOLVING; CURVATURE CONSTRAINTS; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; FEATURE MODELING; FREEFORM FEATURE; FREEFORM SHAPES; GEOMETRIC INFORMATION; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; PRODUCT MODELING; SINGLE PRODUCT;

GEOMETRY;

MAINTENANCE;

EID: 77955246934     PISSN: 15309827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3264573     Document Type: Article

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