• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.965-969
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• 1995

This paper deals with effective using the IGES file for flexible data exchange among the other CAD/CAM system. If a data exchange between STL file and the neutral IGES file in Stereolithography system is available, a product design becomes more flexible. THere can be many restrictions and difficulties intranslating these data. First, an STL file follows two rules, such as right-hand rule, and vertex-to-vertex rule, thus requires a structural verification. Second, translation should be performed with minmal errors. It becomes very important to translate IGES file of limited kinds of entities fot the purpose of geometric information into STL file with minor data manipulation. The developed system suggests a good approach of translating the sampled B-spline surface of IGES and shows a potential linkage between IGES and STL format file.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.114-120
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• 2000

Burr is an unavoidable and undesirable by-product of most metal cutting or shearing operations. This burr must be removed to improve the fit of machined parts and safety of workers, to improve the effectiveness of finishing operations. Despite the full or partial automation of FMC or FMS, deburring operations to obtain workpiece with fine surface quality are difficult to be automated since the occurrence and condition of burr are not constant. This study focused on developing a software for deburring automation, which includes automatic recognition of parts, generation of deburring tool path and NC code, by analyzing the IGES format file which contains information of part geometry. The successful performance of developed software was demonstrated by computer simulation and deburring experiment using miniature end brush. And, this research can provide a basis for further advanced studies for automated deburring applications.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.87-96
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• 1996

IGES is a file format which has gained widespread use but has certain limitations such as limited information coverage and ambiguous definitions. In order to overcome the limitations of existing neutral file formats, STEP has been developed as a more comprehensive mechanism for product data exchange by ISO. This paper describes a file translation system between IGES and STEP. In this system, three EXPRESS schemata are defined for IGES, STEP and the translation relationship between IGES and STEP. Object codes are generated from the schemata and linked with file access libraries to IGES and STEP files. The translation was verified by visualization and reverse translation. The system developed in this study can easily applied to translate other file formats because the file structure and translation relationship are defined in EXPRESS - a high level information modeling language.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 1995.04a
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• pp.617-628
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• 1995

본 논문에서는 상용화된 이 기종 CAD/CAM 시스템간의 CAD 데이타 교환기능을 가지는 IGES Translator 시스템의 구조를 제안한다. 제품생산의 여러 단계에서 CAD/CAM의 사용이 보편화되어감에 따라 상용 CAD/CAM 시스템들은 응용분야에 맞는 특수한 도구로 사용되는 경향이 생겨났다. 예를 들어, ALIAS는 주로 스타일링 디자인에, I-DEAS와 PRO/ENGINEER는 엔지니어링 디자인에, EUCLID는 금형 디자인에, 그리고 OMEGA와 Z-MASTER는 NC 공구경로생성에 주로 사용되고 있다. CAD 데이타 교환을 위해 제안된 중립파일형식(Neutral File Format)중에서, IGES(Initial Graphics Exchange Specification)는 대부분의 상용 CAD/CAM 시스템에서 지원을 하고 있으며 가장 널리 쓰이는 파일형식이다. 그런데, IGES를 통한 CAD 데이타 교환은 다음과 같은 문제점들을 가지고 있다. 즉, patch의 사라짐, 경계곡선의 왜곡, patch의 overlap 또는 gap, trimming error, 곡면각의 꺾임각도 등이 그것이다. 이 논문의 목적은 이러한 문제점들을 해결할 수 있는 범용 IGES Translator를 개발하는데 있다. 이 논문의 주요한 기여 내용은 다음과 같다. 1) 주요 상용 CAD/CAM 시스템의 IGES Interface 기능의 비교 분석, 2) 주요 상용 IGES Translator의 기능 분석, 3) 사용자의 기능적 요구사항의 분석, 4) 사용자 관점 및 시스템 관점에서의 IGES Translator의 구조 제안, 5) Prototype IGES Translator의 개발 및 테스트 결과 제시.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.218-225
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• 2003

A diagnostic system has been developed which reports modeling errors generated when exchanging CAD data using IGES (Initial Graphics Exchange Specification) format. The system determines whether the CAD data contains errors. It also helps to define the criteria for determining the integrity and interoperability of CAD data with downstream applications of another CAD/CAM/CAE/PDM systems. The methodology of our algorithms is to analyze IGES model data by identifying errors and anomalies with respect to the diagnosis of geometry and topology. The GUI (Graphic User Interface) of the developed system helps users to input values and to visualize diagnostic results at real time.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.75-81
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• 2004

In this study surface modeling .method with 3D curve net is proposed. For surface modeling, ship hull was divided into several parts, Generated surface was loaded general purpose CAD program through IGES file format, and the quality of generated surface model was checked by CATIA's internal function. Lastly it is tried to find a method for improving the accuracy of surface connection by using the blending method in CATIA and the result was discussed.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.71-78
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• 2001

In ship building industry, CNC and CAM are mostly applied to NC cutting and manufacturing of propeller and prototype ship model. Herein, prototype ship model is producted by CAD/CAM process. Hull form data is obtained from the ship drawing and used for 3D modeling by CAD software Pro/Engineer. CAD data is transferred into CAM s/w SPEEDplus to perform CNC process and the prototype small ship model is manufactured by CNC machine. To solve data transfer among different systems. IGES and STEP neutral formats are currently used. Herein IGES format is adopted for data transfer between CAD/CAM softwares.

• Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.79-84
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• 2004

In this study, a robot welding programming system is developed for gantry-type robot using a neutral CAD data format. The system automatically extracts welding line data from tile CAD model represented in IGES format and generates a robot program based on the weld line extracted. The welding program is simulated jar verification by using IGRlP, a virtual manufacturing solution. The robot welding programming system is demonstrated with a simple example.

• International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.15-23
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• 2002

With the development of a laser scanner of high precision and increased speed, reverse engineering becomes a key approach to reduce the time for the development of new products. But the modeling process is not so automated enough until now. Modeling in real workshops is usually performed by the experienced operators and it requires a skillful technique to get the resultant surface of high quality and precision. In this paper, a systematic solution is proposed to automate the free-form surface generation from the measured point data. Compatibility is imposed to the measured point data during input curve generation. And the compatibility of cross-sectional curve is also considered for the loft surface generation. The data in each step is produced in IGES file format to make an easy interface to other CAD/CAM software without any further data manipulation.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.894-899
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• 2000

An automatic mesh generation system with unstructured quadrilateral elements on trimmed NURBS surfaces has been developed.. In this paper, NURBS surface geometries in the IGES format have been used to represent model shape. NURBS surface is represented as parametric surface. So each surface could be mapped to a 2D parametric plane through the parametric domain. And then meshes with quadrilateral elements are constructed in this plane. Finally, the constructed meshes are mapped back to the original 3D surface through the parametric domain. In this paper, projection plane, quasi-expanded plane and parametric Plane are used as 2D mesh generation plane. For mapping 3D surface to parametric domain, Newton-Rhapson Method is employed. For unstructured mesh generation with quadrilateral elements on 2D plane, a domain decomposition algorithm using loop operators has been employed. Sample meshes are represented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.