• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 1992.04b
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• pp.299-308
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• 1992

Determining tool-approach directions is an important issue when an effort is made to transfer CAD data into manufacturing automatically. An algorithm is developed to determine whether a given part can be machined on a three-axis milling machine. lf a set of feasible tool-approach directions exists for a sculptured surface, the NC tool path and G-codes for machining the surface on a three-axis milling machine can be generated automatically by an NC tool path generation algorithm. The algorithm can be used for orientation and fixturing of the workpiece for interference free machining. The algorithm can also be applied to checking the translational separability of polyhedral parts in automatic assembly.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.79-88
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• 1998

This study deals with the development of CAM system which can machine and measure any shape of mold and die by machining center and coordinate measureing machine . The overall goal of the CAM system is to achieve the mold and die machining , from digitizing through to final cutting. The hardware of the system comprises PC and machining center. CMM. There are three steps in the mold and die machining. (1) measuring of physical model by the CMM, (2) geometric modeling by the CAD system, (3) generation of NC code by the tool path compensated for tool radius. It is developed a software package, with which can conduct a micro CAM system in the PC without economical burden.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1997.04a
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• pp.438-442
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• 1997

The pupose of this study is the development of CAM system which can cut any shape by CNC lathe.. The overall goal of the CAM system is to achieve the CNC lathe machining, form roughing through to final measuring. The hardware of the system comprises PC and CNC lathe. There are three steps in the CNC lathe machining, (1) geometric modeling by the shape patterns, (2) NC commands generation by the tool path compensated for tool nose radius,(3) machining and workpiece measuring on the lathe. It is developed a software package, with which can conduct a micro CAM system in the PC without economical burden.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.106-110
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• 2001

The ball-end milling process is widely used in the die/mold industries, and it is very suitable for the machining of free-form surfaces. However, this process is inherently inefficient process to compared with the end-milling or face milling process, since it relays upon the machining at the cutter/surface contact point. The machined part is the result of continuous point-to-point machining on the free-form surface. And cusps (or scallops) remain at the machined part along the cutter paths and they give the geometrical roughness of the workpiece. Thus, for the good geometrical roughness of the workpiece, it is required very tightly spaced cutter paths in this ball-endmilling process. However, with the tight cutter paths, the geometrical roughness of the workpiece is not regular on the workpiece since the cusp height is variable in the previously developed ISO-parametric or Cartesian machining methods. This paper suggests a method of tool path generation which makes the geometrical roughness of workpiece be constant through the machined surface. In this method, Ferguson Surface design Model is used and cusp height is derived from the instantaneous curvatures. And, to have constant cusp height, an increment of parameter u or v is estimated along the reference cutter path. In ball-end milling experiments, the cusp pattern was examined, and it was proved that the geometrical roughness could be regular by suggested tool path generation method.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.62-69
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• 1996

Interpolator is a very important element in NC machines in that it controls tool path and speed. In this paper, studied were extensive interpolation characteristics of reference pulse method among various interpolation and pulse generation methods. Specifically, processing speed and path error of DDA, SPD and SFG methods were compared and analyzed against line, circle and elipse. As a result, in the point of processing speed, SPD method was found to be the best for line interpolation, SFG method for circle and ellipse, and DDA method was found to be the slowest for all paths. In the point of path error, DDA method was found to have the biggest error for all kinds of paths.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1995.04b
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• pp.429-433
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• 1995

Compound solid is maded for specially fixed object. A number of compound soild are devided as a unit germetric solid. The special case of rotation about an arbitrary axis makes according selection modelfor transformation. View plane and View region are estiblished for back face removal. After back-face removal eachedge is checked for point of intersection. The designing of of fset surface id maded and tool-path gernerted on the part surface. In tersection point is checked among the offset surfaces. The paper used an efficient algorithm for generating tool paths to apply a notion view volume. Through machining experiments with a 3-axis machining centre, the adequacy of the analysis was confirmed.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.422-428
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• 2006

In this paper, an NC data optimization approach for enhancing 5-axis machining speed is presented. It is usual to use expensive commercial CAD/CAM programs for NC data of 5-axis machining, since it needs very large calculations for optimal tool positioning and orientation, tool path planning, and collision-free tool path generation. Since commercial CAD/CAM systems have similar functions and efficiency based on common algorithms of reliable theories, they do not have their own unique features for machining speed and efficiency. In other words, most commercial CAD/CAM systems consider only the characteristics of part geometry to be machined, which means that they generate almost the same NC data if the part to be machined is the same, even though different machines are used for the pin. A new approach is proposed for optimizing NC data of 5-axis machining, which is based on the characteristics of the machine to be operated. As a result, the speed of 5-axis machining can increase without losing machining accuracy and surface quality.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.338-342
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• 2003

Hybrid machine is based on hardware technologies of machine tool and software technologies of open architecture controller. In machining technology, combination technology of turning, milling, and grinding and in machining energy technology. combination of mechanical, electrical, and chemical technology are developed. This paper describes hybrid machine technology for combination of machining, on-machine measurement, on-machine CAM, and on-machine remote monitoring and control in open architecture controller environment. For on-machine measurement, non-contact measurement technology based on CAD information is developed. For on-machine CAM, interactive CAM program for automatic NC program generation and tool path simulation is developed. For generation on-machine remote monitoring and control, suitable interface method between web program and CNC is proposed. The developed hybrid machine technology is implemented in 3 axes milling machine for evaluation of operablity.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.293-303
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• 1998

The objective of this study is to develop a PC level freeform surface modeling system which explicitly represents information of part geometry. Surface modeler uses nonuniform rational B-spline (NURBS) function with nonuniform knot vector for the flexible modeling work. The results of this study are as follows. 1) By implementation surface modeler through applying representation scheme proposed to represent free-form surface explicity, the technical foundation to develop free-from surface modeling system using parametric method. 2) Besides the role to model geometric shape of a surface, geometric modeler is developed to model arbitrary geometric shape. By doing this, the availability of the modeling system is improved. Geometric modeler can be utilized application fields such as collision test of tool and fixture, and tool path generation for NC machine tool.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.335-336
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• 2008