Nguyen, Van Tuong, Pokorny, P. and Le, Chi ORCID: 0000-0002-5168-2297 (2010) Free-form surface partitioning for 5-axis CNC milling based on surface curvature and Chain Codes. In: Innovative Production Machines and Systems: Fifth I PROMS Virtual International Conference. Whittles Publishing. ISBN 1849950067 ISSN 9781849950060

PDF (Publisher PDF) 11745_Le_Free_form_surface_partitioning_2009.pdf - Published Version Restricted to Repository staff only Download (144kB)

Abstract

The practically effective method for partitioning freeform surfaces is presented. Based on the surface curvatures, a freeform surface is partitioned into convex, concave and saddle-like regions in which the chain code technique is applied to determine the boundaries of each region. The curves of the boundaries are used as the factor to trim the surface so that each region can be separately machined. A Matlab program was developed to perform the surface partitioning task and obtain the coordinates of all points on the boundaries. The freeform surface reconstruction and simulation of the tool path of partitioned regions were illustrated via Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0.

Item Type:	Conference Proceedings
Title of Proceedings:	Innovative Production Machines and Systems: Fifth I PROMS Virtual International Conference
Additional Information:	Fifth I*PROMS Virtual International Conference, 6-17 July, 2009.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Surface partitioning, Freeform surface machining, Chain Codes
Pre-2014 Departments:	School of Engineering
Last Modified:	14 Oct 2016 09:28
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/11745

Actions (login required)

View Item

Downloads