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Clean-up tool path generation by contraction tool method for machining complex polyhedral models Yongfu Rena, Hong Tzong Yaub, Yuan-Shin Leea,* aDepartment of Industrial Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7906, USA bDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, ROC Received 8 January 2003; accepted 13 September 2003 Abstract In high performance machining, multiple cutters of different sizes are used for roughing, finishing and clean-up cutting. In this paper, a contraction tool method is proposed to detect gouging and genera