Integrating advanced computer-aided design, manufacturing, and numerical control: Principles and implementations

Integrating Advanced Computer-Aided Design, Manufacturing, and Numerical Control: Principles and Implementations

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-397

  Xu, Xun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 84898269392     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-714-0     Document Type: Book

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