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Drop and tilt method of five-axis tool positioning for tensor product surfaces

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The drop and tilt tool positioning method for five-axis machining with a toroidal tool positions the toroidal tool to have two points of contact with a triangulated surface. In this paper, we extend the method to position the tool with two points of contact on algebraically defined tensor product Bézier surfaces.

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  1. Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab, India

    Ravinder Kumar Duvedi

  2. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Sanjeev Bedi & Stephen Mann

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Duvedi, R.K., Bedi, S. & Mann, S. Drop and tilt method of five-axis tool positioning for tensor product surfaces. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 93, 617–622 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-017-0548-y

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