Using a GPU to Accelerate Die and Mold Fabrication

Author

Inui, Masatomo ; Ohta, Atsushi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Intelligent Syst. Eng., Ibaraki Univ.

Volume

27

Issue

1

fYear

2007

Firstpage

82

Lastpage

88

Abstract

The authors present a GPU-based method for generating and verifying cutter paths for numerically controlled milling. A CAM system based on this technology is now employed in production at Mazda Motor Corporation for manufacturing stamping dies. This system can compute cutter paths more than 20 times faster than previous methods

Keywords

automobile industry; computer aided manufacturing; computer graphic equipment; dies (machine tools); engineering graphics; milling; moulding; moulding equipment; numerical control; CAM system; GPU; Mazda Motor Corporation; cutter paths; die fabrication; mold fabrication; numerically controlled milling; stamping dies manufacturing; Acceleration; Automobiles; Blades; CADCAM; Computer aided manufacturing; Fabrication; Geometry; Grid computing; Milling; Shape; Boolean operation; CAD/CAM; GPU; Minkowski sum; numerically controlled milling; solid modeling; Algorithms; Computer Graphics; Computer-Aided Design; Equipment Design; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; Manufactured Materials; User-Computer Interface;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCG.2007.23

Filename

4052502