Automatic assembly feature recognition and disassembly sequence generation

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 291-299

  Sung, Raymond C W ^a   Corney, Jonathan R ^a   Clark, Doug E R ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assembly features; Assembly planning; Feature recognition; Geometric modelling; Octree representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84999061814     PISSN: 15309827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1429931     Document Type: Article

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