Process planning for high speed milling prototyping technology

This research is directed to the process planning including the workpiece orientation, the rest-milling tool path generation and the orthogonal milling tool path generation for the Orthogonal Milling Process. Visibility maps are used to represent the feasible orientation of a surface feature so that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tan, Kim Wei.
Other Authors: Gong, Thomas Haiqing
Format: Thesis
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/6466
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Summary:This research is directed to the process planning including the workpiece orientation, the rest-milling tool path generation and the orthogonal milling tool path generation for the Orthogonal Milling Process. Visibility maps are used to represent the feasible orientation of a surface feature so that the problem of workpiece orientation can be transformed into a geometric problem in the spherical domain and be analyzed in order to determine a feasible workpiece orientation.