• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.119-126
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• 2000

Recently, according to the various taste of consumers, the design of a product is changed variously and complicatedly. The complicated product is not usually constructed with one path but multi-path. By the way, in machining, higher precision and the reduction of leading and machining time is required. But, for the multi-patch sculptured surface, the amount of machining data becomes large. This means the increase of leading and machining time. In this study, the tool path generation method with reparameterization is proposed for multi-patch sculptured surface and variable step size using NURBS is used to satisfy the precision and to reduce leading and machining time.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.133-140
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• 2009

Presented in this paper is a method to generate round-endmill toolpaths for sculptured surfaces represented as a triangular mesh model. The proposed method is applicable in toolpath generation for ball-endmills and flat-endmills because the round-endmill is a generalized tool in three-axis NC (numerical control) milling. The method uses a wireframe model as the offset model that represents a cutter location surface. Since wireframe models are relatively simple and fast to calculate, the proposed method can process large models and keep high precision. Intersection points with the wireframe offset model and a tool guide plane are calculated, and intersection curves are constructed by tracing the intersection points. The final step of the method is extracting regular curves from the intersection curves including degenerate and self-intersected segments. The proposed method is implemented and tested, and a practical example is presented.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.393-396
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• 2000

본 연구에서는 필렛엔드밀을 이용하여 복합곡면을 가공하기 위한 새로운 접근방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 "곡선기반 접근방법"으로 기존의 "점기반 접근방법"에 비하여 몇 가지 특징들을 가지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 다면체로 표현된 곡면을 대상으로 하고 있는데, 볼록한 모서리와 꼭지점에서는 정확히 옵셋시키고 오목한 부위에서는 옵셋 곡면이 겹치는 것을 허용한다. 옵셋된 곡면을 절단 평면으로 자르고, 같은 평면상에 있는 교선 중에서 겹치는 부분의 윗 부분을 택하면 공구 간섭이 제거된 공구 경로를 얻게된다. 즉 계산이 복잡한 오목지역에서의 옵셋 시 발생되는 간섭을 2차원 평면상에서 제거함으로써 계산 과정을 단순화시키고 안정적으로 만든다. 본 연구에서 제안한 방법은 PC에서 VC++로 구현되었으며 몇 가지 적용 예를 보여 주고 있다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.29 no.6 s.237
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• pp.895-903
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• 2005

In this paper, we present a cutter location (CL) surface deformation approach for constant scallop height tool path generation from triangular mesh. The triangular mesh model of the stereo lithography (STL) format is offset to the CL surface and then deformed in accordance with the deformation vectors, which are computed by the slope and the curvature of the CL surface. In addition, the tool path which is computed by slicing the deformed CL surface is inversely deformed by those same deformation vectors to a tool path with a constant scallop height. The proposed method is implemented, and a tool path generated by the proposed method is tested by simulation and by numerical control (NC) machining. The scallop height was found to be constant over the entire machined surface, demonstrating much better quality than that of mesh slicing, under the same constraints for machining time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.647-652
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• 2000

Recently, according to the various taste of consumers, the design of a product is changed variously and complicatedly. The complicated product is not usually constructed with one patch but multi-patch. By the way, in machining, higher precision and the reduction of leading and machining time is required. But for the multi-patch sculptured surface, the amount of machining data becomes large. This means the increase of leading and machining time. In this study, the tool path generation method with reparameterization is proposed for multi-patch sculptured surface and variable step size using NURBS is used to satisfy the precision and to reduce leading and machining time.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.44 no.2 s.152
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• pp.198-209
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• 2007

In this paper, we present the gouging and collision-free tool-path generation for manufacturing model propellers using the 5-axis NC machine. Because it takes much time to generate tool-paths when we use general purpose CAD/CAM systems, a specific system would be necessary for marine propellers. Overall manufacturing process is composed of two steps: roughcut and finishcut steps. The roughcut is conducted using only 3-axis for efficient machining and the finishcut is done using 5-axis for avoiding collision. The tool-path that might happen to gouging is searched and the tool position is also decided for avoiding interference between the tool and the propeller blades. The present algorithm is applied extensively to the surface piercing propellers. Some results are demonstrated for its validation.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.29 no.3 s.234
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• pp.447-454
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• 2005

This paper presents a new paradigm for 3-axis tool path generation based on an incomplete 2-manifold mesh model, namely, an inexact polyhedron. When geometric data is transferred from one system to another system and tessellated for tool path generation, the model does not have any topological data between meshes and facets. In contrast to the existing polyhedral machining approach, the proposed method generates tool paths from an incomplete 2-manifold mesh model. In order to generate gouge-free tool paths, CL-meshes are generated by offsetting boundary edges, boundary vertices, and facets. The CL-meshes are sliced by machining planes and the calculated intersections are sorted, trimmed, and linked. The grid method is used to reduce the computing time when range searching problems arise. The method is fully implemented and verified by machining an incomplete 2-manifold mesh model.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.602-607
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• 2002

금형가공에서 사용되는 밀링머신의 가공시 공구와 피삭재의 접합면에서는 절삭가공의 잔유물인버(Burr)가 생성되고, 이러한 버는 작업효?ㅘ 정밀도를 감소시키며 후처리과정(Deburring)을 야기시키는 원인이 된다. 그러므로 정밀도와 작업효율을 극대화하기 위해서는 이러한 버의 생성원리를 파악함과 동시에 Exit 버 판별을 하여 최적의 가공조건을 맞추어 주어야 하는데, 이에 밀링가공을 통해 생성되는 버의 형태와 Exit 각 등을 파악, 알고리즘으로 개발하여 좀 더 효율적인 가공조건을 제시하고자 한다. 본 연구는 이제까지 개발된 실제 가공에서 사용되는 임의형상의 데이터를 통해 점, 선, 원 및 원호(Arc)에 이르는 형상을 인식하는 Exit 버 판별시스템을 소개하고자 한다. 아울러 실제 가공과 더욱 유사한 환경을 만들기 위해 단일 경로에서부터 다중경로에 이르는 복합적인 환경 구현은 물론 점과 선으로 이루어진 도형과 원(구멍)형태의 피삭재 환경을 통합, 두 가지 다른 형태의 환경이 복합적으로 존재할 경우의 Data를 인식하고 아울러 다양한 방향성을 가진 선으로 이루어진 형상에 이르기까지의 다양한 피석재 Data를 구현하고, 입력된 절삭조건을 해석하여 임의형상을 가진 다양한피삭재에서의 단일 및 다중 가공 경로 상에서 발생될 버를 해석하고 최소화 및 최적 절삭가공공정을 찾아 작업 효율성을 극대화하는 목적의 해석 알고리즘을 Windows 프로그램으로 구현하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.1113-1115
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• 2013

NC 포스트프로세서는 CAD/CAM시스템에서 생성된 공구경로데이터 파일을 입력받아 NC공작기계를 구동시킬 수 있는 공작기계 제어데이터 파일로 변환해 주는 소프트웨어이다. 본 논문에서는 범용 NC 포스트프로세서를 웹에서 실행될 수 있도록 구현한 내용을 기술하고 있다. 사용자가 웹에 접속하여 NC 콘트롤러의 사양 및 매개변수를 설정해주면 절단에 사용할 NC파일이 자동 생성된다. 개발된 본 시스템을 사용하면 고가의 전용 NC 포스트포로세서 구입에 소요되는 비용을 줄일 있어 생산성 향상에 기여할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2000.05a
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• pp.866-869
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• 2000

The finishing process for die is an important process because it has influence on final quality of products. And it is difficult to automatize finishing process so that the process has depended on expert's skill until now. However, recently a study on development of die automatic finishing machine has been progressed, and actually this machine is applied to fabrication of die. But die automatic finishing machine has the problems such as low supply rate and high machine price. In this paper 3-axis machine was applied to the die finishing. And to improve form accuracy of die finishing path was regenerated. The finishing path considered tilting of finishing tool. and variation of machining force with contacting point between finishing and workpiece.