Decomposition of complex models for manufacturing Conference Paper

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abstract

• This paper presents a feature recognition (FR) technique that separates protrusions bounded by freeform surface geometry. The method can also generate complementary male/female assembly features at the interface between components. A novel heuristic that uses edge curvature continuity is applied to direct the search and the construction of protrusion boundaries. The result is represented as a cellular model. The objective is to manufacture complex prototype assemblies on multi-axis machining centres. After describing the algorithm and presenting some examples of its application the paper concludes by discussing the approaches limitations.

authors

• Corney J.
• Davies J.B.C.
• Lim T.
• Medellín Castillo Hugo Iván
• Ritchie J.M.

publication date

• 2004-01-01

published in

• Proceedings - Shape Modeling International SMI 2004  Proceedings

Research

keywords

• Complex models; Edge curvature; Freeform surface geometry; Protrusions; Algorithms; Boundary conditions; Interfaces (computer); Machining; Manufacture; Software prototyping; Surface properties; Topology; Pattern recognition

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/SMI.2004.1314522

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• 337

end page

• 341