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附录A 英文原文Process Planning and Automation for Additive-Subtractive Solid Freeform FabricationThe demand in industry for fast, accurate renditions of designs is not new, and a whole community of specialized model makers and craftsmen has traditionally catered to this demand. This community has adopted new technology, like CNC machining, as it has become available. Nevertheless, the process of creating a model or a prototype of a design remained labor- and skill- intensive until the set of processes known collectively as Solid Free form Fabrication became feasible.The processes currently used in the SFF industry are purely additive, where material is progressively added to the part being built in the final position and shape. Newer processes coming out of the research laboratories are using engineering materials (hard metals, ceramics), and are combining addition and subtraction of material as a way to shape more precisely the part. A comprehensive review of the available processes can be found in [Prinz, Atwood et al. 1997].Additive/Subtractive processes improve on purely additive ones in the range of materials they handle and the accuracy they provide. They are also proving to accept more sophisticated design with multiple and graded materials in a single part [Weiss, Merz et al. 1997], as well as integrating whole assemblies in one single fabrication unit. The downside to all theseimprovements is that additive/subtractive processes require a substantially more sophisticated process planning and part execution control. This increased difficulty is the result of the use of CNC machining or similar material removal processes and the need to coordinate several different unit processes.The goal of this paper is to present a planning and execution framework for additive/subtractive processes, outline the issues involved in developing such an environment, and report on the progress made in this direction at the Rapid Prototyping Laboratory at Stanford University. We take t