Design enabler to recognize duplicate geometries in CAD assemblies

Computer-Aided Design and Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 889-904

  Shanthakumar, Aravind ^a   Summers, Joshua D ^b  

^a PartMaker Inc   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly models; Duplicate geometry; Feature recognition; Lazy parts; Similarity

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY MODEL; CONNECTIVITY GRAPH; FEATURE RECOGNITION; LAZY PARTS; MANUFACTURING ASSEMBLY; ORIENTATION ANGLES; SIMILARITY; THRESHOLD DISTANCES;

GEOMETRY;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 84878831611     PISSN: 16864360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3722/cadaps.2013.889-904     Document Type: Article

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