Five-Axis Tool Path Generation of Injection Mold Represented by T-Spline Surface

Figure 4

The neighboring relation of a model with 12 patches; (a) the patch layout, for each patch, its neighboring relation with patch 0 is represented in the figure using a different color; (b) the undirected weighted graph generated from the neighboring relation in (a); boundary connections are represented using solid lines and corner connections are represented using dashed lines.

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