Illustrating how mechanical assemblies work

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 106-114

  Mitra, Niloy J ^a   Yang, Yong Liang ^b   Yan, Dong Ming ^b   Li, Wilmot ^c   Agrawala, Maneesh ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c ADOBE RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED APPROACH; CAD MODELS; CAUSAL CHAINS; FRAME SEQUENCES; MECHANICAL ASSEMBLY; MECHANICAL INTERACTIONS; USER-SPECIFIED CONSTRAINTS; VISUAL TECHNIQUES;

ANIMATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84872022783     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2398356.2398379     Document Type: Article

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