A survey of cutter path construction techniques for milling machines

Abstract Cutter path generation is a surprisingly active research and development area. Together with cutter path topology, it is critical to the validity and efficiency of cutter path generation. Here we survey the main generation techniques used and discuss the performance of each method.

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