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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 105
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
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Paper 55

An Approach for the Recognition of Interacting Manufacturing Features

J. Pobozniak

Production Engineering Institute, Cracow University of Technology, Poland

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
J. Pobozniak, "An Approach for the Recognition of Interacting Manufacturing Features", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 55, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.105.55
Keywords: manufacturing features, feature recognition, feature interactions, computer aided manufacturing.

Summary
Most computer aided manufacturing systems for computer numerical control machine tool programming available on the market offers functions for feature recognition. Neverthless, these functions have limited functionality, restricting their use engineering jobs. Research clearly shows that one of the main factors blocking the feature technology is the recognition of interacting features. This paper presents the algorithm for the efficient recognition of interacting features. The starting point is the assumption that manufacturing knowledge plays the crucial role in the feature recognition. The manufacturing knowledge decides how to group the basic geometric entities into the manufacturing features. The algorithm presented uses the feature refinement function, converting the initial set of features into the other set of features based on the manufacturing knowledge and the function for local feature recognition. The algorithm is relatively simple, while taking into account the requirements imposed on the feature recognition systems.

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