A Voxel Based Automatic Tool Path Planning Approach Using Scanned Data as the Stock

This paper presents a novel automatic tool path planning approach which employs the scanned data as the stock. Using the scan data as the stock allows a new geometrical approach to measure the difference between the stock model and desired final geometry. This approach employs a voxel model as the underlying geometric representation, which enables an efficient parallel tool path planning algorithm based on a general-purpose graphics processing...