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Finding All Undercut-Free Parting Directions for Extrusions

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Finding All Undercut-Free Parting Directions for Extrusions
For molding and casting processes, geometries that have undercut-free parting directions (UFPDs) are preferred for manufacturing. Identifying all UFPDs for arbitrary geometries at interactive speeds remains an open problem, however; for polyhedral parts with n vertices, existing algorithms take at least O(n4 ) time. In this paper, we introduce a new algorithm to calculate all the UFPDs for extrusions, an important class of geometry for manufacturing in its own right and a basic geometric building block in solid modeling systems. The algorithm is based on analyzing the 2D generator profile for the extrusion, building on our previous results for 2D undercut analysis of polygons. The running time is O(n2 log n) to find the exact set of UFPDs or O(n) to find a slightly conservative superset of the UFPDs, where n is the geometric complexity of the 2D generator profile. Using this approach, the set of possible UFPDs for a part containing multiple extruded features can be reduced based up...
Xiaorui Chen, Sara McMains
Added 11 Jun 2010
Updated 11 Jun 2010
Type Conference
Year 2006
Where GMP
Authors Xiaorui Chen, Sara McMains
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