AN ADAPTIVE FEATURE RECOGNITION PROCESS FOR MACHINING CONTEXTS

This paper outlines the problem of CAD/CAM integration and presents a system for the automatic recognition of machining features. It is adap table to the requirements of different environments giving the users t he possibility of describing their own form features and inserting man ufacturing information by using a teaching by example technique. The s tructure resulting from this recognition process is a hybrid descripti on of the object in terms of its characterising features to which manu facturing attributes have been associated.