An agent-based approach to STEP-NC CAD/CAM

The search for automatic manufacture of components has been and continues to be a major goal of researchers since NC machines appeared in 1952. The ability to generate a NC tool path is now commonplace from CAD/CAM systems, but the technology used to program NC machines is still based on the origina...

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Main Author: Allen, Richard David
Published: Loughborough University 2003
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398186