Abstract
Numerous applications in mechanical CAD/CAM need robust algorithms for the identification of protrusion and depression features (DP-features) on geometric models with free-form (B-Spline) surfaces. This paper reports a partitioning algorithm that first identifies the boundary edges of DP-features and then creates a surface patch to cover the depressions or isolate the protrusions. The novelty of the method lies in the use of tangent continuity between edge segments to identify DP-feature boundaries that cross multiple faces and geometries. © 2005 IEEE.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 851-860 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 6 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jun 2005 |
Keywords
- CAD
- CAM
- CAPP
- Geometric modeling
- Three-dimensional geometric feature recognition