McMains: Publications

Sara McMains' Publications and Presentations

Refereed:

Karasuda and McMains, ``Displaying Readable Text in a Head-Tracked, Stereoscopic Virtual Environment,'' accepted to Journal of Graphics Tools.
Khardekar and McMains, ``Fast Layered Manufacturing Support Volume Computation on GPUs,'' to appear in ASME Design Automation Conference, Design Engineering Technical Conferences, September 2006.
Chen and McMains, ``Finding All Undercut-Free Parting Directions for Extrusions,'' Geometric Modeling and Processing, July 2006, LNCS 4077, Springer Verlag, pp. 514-527.
Avila, Reich-Weiser, Dornfeld, and McMains, ``Design and Manufacturing for Cleanability in High Performance Cutting,'' CIRP 2nd International Conference on High Performance Cutting, Vancouver, BC, June 2006, Paper Number 63.
Khardekar, Burton, and McMains, ``Finding Feasible Mold Parting Directions Using Graphics Hardware,'' Computer-Aided Design, 38:4, April 2006, pp.327-341; earlier conference version in Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling, Cambridge, MA, June 2005, pp. 233-243.
McMains and Chen, ``Finding Undercut-Free Parting Directions for Polygons with Curved Edges,'' ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 6:1, March 2006, pp. 60-68.
Shon and McMains, ``Haptic Force Shading Parameter Effects on Path Tracing Accuracy,'' 14th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems at IEEE Virtual Reality 2006, March 25-26, 2006, pp. 517-523.
Chen and McMains, ``Polygon Offsetting Using Winding Numbers,'' ASME Design Automation Conference, Design Engineering Technical Conferences, September 2005, pp. 565-575.
McMains, Bailey, and Crawford, ``Layered Manufacturing as a Graphics Display Device,'' SIGGRAPH Courses Program, August 2005, Course Notes v. 27.
McMains, Layered Manufacturing Technologies, Communications of the ACM, June 2005, 48:4, pp.50-56.
Shon and McMains, Evaluation of Drawing on 3D Surfaces with Haptics, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Nov/Dec 2004, 24:6, pp.40-50.
Nadjakova and McMains, Finding an Optimal Set of Cutter Radii for 2.5D Pocket Machining, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Anaheim, CA, Nov. 2004, IMECE2004-62224, pp. 351-358.
McMains and Chen, Determining Moldability and Parting Directions for Polygons with Curved Edges, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Anaheim, CA, Nov. 2004, IMECE2004-62227, pp. 359-368.
Karasuda and McMains, Textual Annotation in a Head Tracked, Stereoscopic Virtual Design Environment, 2004 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Salt Lake City, UT, Sept. 2004, DETC2004/57705, pp. 527-536.
McMains, Smith, and Séquin, Thin-Wall Calculation for Layered Manufacturing (pdf from JCISE website), Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, September 2003, Volume 3, Issue 3, pp. 210-218.
McMains, Bailey, Crawford, and Séquin, 3D Hardcopy: Converting Virtual Reality to Physical Models, SIGGRAPH 2003, Courses Program, San Diego, CA, July 2003, Course Notes v. 33.
McMains, Smith, and Séquin, The Evolution of a Layered Manufacturing Interchange Format (pdf), Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, 28th Design Automation Conference, September 2002, v. 2. DETC2002/DAC-34136, pp. 945-953.
Ahn, McMains, Séquin, and Wright, Mechanical Implementation Services for Rapid Prototyping (pdf), Journal of Engineering Manufacture, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B, vol. 216 no. 8, pp. 1193-1199, August, 2002.
McMains, Sara, Double Sided Layered Manufacturing (pdf), Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation, July 2002, Hiroshima, Japan, pp. 269-272.
McMains, Séquin, Bailey, and Crawford, 3D Hardcopy: Converting Virtual Reality to Physical Models, SIGGRAPH 2001, Courses Program, Los Angeles, CA, August 2001, Course Notes v. 39.
Simmons, McMains, and Séquin, Efficient Update of Geometric Constraints in an Evolving Mesh Representation, Technical Sketch presented at SIGGRAPH 2001, Conference Abstracts and Applications, Los Angeles, CA, August 2001, p. 175.
McMains, Hellerstein, and Séquin, Out-of-Core Build of a Topological Data Structure from Polygon Soup (pdf), Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, June 2001, pp. 171-182.
Ahn, Sundararajan, Smith, Kannan, D'Souza, Sun, Mohole, Wright, Kim, McMains, Smith, and Séquin, CyberCut: An Internet Based CAD/CAM System (gzipped PostScript), ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, March 2001, pp. 52-59.
McMains, Smith, Wang, and Séquin, Layered Manufacturing of Thin-Walled Parts, ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences 2000, 26th Design Automation Conference, September 2000, DETC2000/DAC-14285, pp. 379-387. (Best Paper Award).
McMains and Séquin, Efficient Out-of-Core Build of a Topological Data Structure, Technical Sketch presented at SIGGRAPH 2000, Conference Abstracts and Applications, New Orleans, LA, July 2000, p. 199.
McMains and Séquin, A Coherent Sweep Plane Slicer for Layered Manufacturing (gzipped PostScript), Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, June 1999, pp. 285-295.
McMains, Séquin, and Smith, SIF: A Solid Interchange Format for Rapid Prototyping (gzipped PostScript), CIRP - Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 29, No. 1, 1999, pp. 29-32. Also published in Proceedings of the 31st CIRP International Seminar on Manufacturing Systems, May 26-28, 1998, pp. 40-45 and as SME Technical Report PE99-117.
Seltzer, Smith, Balakrishnan, Chang, McMains, and Padmanabhan, File System Logging versus Clustering: A Performance Comparison (gzipped PostScript), Proceedings of the 1995 Usenix Technical Conference, January 1995, pp. 249-64. (Best Student Paper Award).

Invited and Conference Presentations:

McMains, ``Design For Manufacturing Feedback At Interactive Rates,'' Invited Speaker, ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Symposium, Cardiff, Whales, June 6-8, 2006, p. 239.
McMains, Ramani, Saitou, ``Design and Manufacturing,'' (Panel Chair and Speaker), ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Symposium, Cardiff, Whales, June 6-8, 2006.
McMains and Khardekar, ``Design for Manufacturing Analysis with Graphics Hardware,'' SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, November 2005, Phoenix, AZ, p. 30.
Khardekar and McMains, Finding Mold Removal Directions Using Graphics Hardware, 2004 ACM Workshop on General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processors (p. C-19) (also presented at SIGGRAPH 2004 poster sessions), Los Angeles, Aug. 2004.
McMains, Chen, and Ambekar, ''Decomposition and Reconfiguration in Layered Manufacturing,'' SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing, November 2003, Seattle, WA, p. 29.
McMains, Séquin, and Wright, ``Virtual Reality Collaborative Re-Design Environment,'' Proceedings WIHAVE 2002 Workshop on Intelligent Humans & Virtual Environments, Chapel Hill, NC, Oct 2002, pp. D-8, D-38, E-16.
McMains and Séquin, ``Computational Issues in Layered Manufacturing,'' SIAM Conference on Geometric Design and Computing 2001, November 2001, Sacramento, CA, p. 31.
Smith, McMains, and Séquin, SIF: A Solid Interchange Format for Web-Based Prototyping (gzipped PostScript) (or html), NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference, January 1999.
McMains and Séquin, ``SIF: The Emerging Solids Interchange Format,'' Fifth SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, November 1997, Nashville, TN, p. 22.
McMains, Séquin, and Smith, Dealing with Data Imprecision, Design Tolerances, and Manufacturing Limitations in SIF (gzipped PostScript), Measurements and Standards Issues in Rapid Prototyping, Oct 16-17, 1997, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD.
Séquin and McMains, What Can SFF CAD Learn from the VLSI CAD Revolution? (gzipped PostScript), NSF Workshop on Design Methodologies for Solid Freeform Fabrication, June 5-6, 1995, Section 4.5.1.

Theses:

McMains, Sara, Geometric Algorithms and Data Representation for Solid Freeform Fabrication (pdf) (or gzipped PostScript, or abstract), PhD Thesis, U.C. Berkeley, 2000.
McMains, Sara, Rapid Prototyping of Solid Three Dimensional Parts (gzipped PostScript), Master's Thesis, U.C. Berkeley, 1995. UCB Tech Report UCB/CSD-96-892.

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