Computer-aided design of mechanical components with volume building bricks

✍ Scribed by I.C Braid; C.A Lang

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 592 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0005-1098
• DOI: 10.1016/0005-1098(74)90084-3

✦ Synopsis

Shapes, concisely described in terms of volume elements, are readily input to a computer by engineering designers. Line drawings and shape information for manafacture can be produced automatically from the description stored in the computer.

Snmmary--The paper describes a program which a designer can use to build up the shape of a 2½D or 3D mechanical component by adding or subracting volumes. The program will plot or display line drawings of the component. It also generates a stored description of the eomponent's shape, from which can be derived geometric information for manufacture of the component by numerically-controlled machine tools.