Apparatus, system and methods for cnc material cutting
AssigneeTurf Design, Inc.
InventorsDustin Headley, Tyler Van Kirk
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Abstract
An apparatus, system, method or process for converting an original or source image into a computer image file that uses guide curves to provide for a cutting of that image onto the surface of a material. The present disclosure relates to a process of converting an image into a computer image file, such as by pixelating or rasterizing the image. The process then controls the CNC knife to cut the surface of the material at different locations, different angles, different depths, and different range of motion, based on the processing of the computer image file, thereby creating the original image, or a very close replica, on the surface of the material. By deviating the cut lines from each other, the intensity of the image can be varied.
Claims13
A method of generating an image on a sheet of material similar to a source image, using a CNC cutting tool, the steps comprising:
- a) scanning a source image using a scanning device;
- b) converting said source image into a computer image file using a computer program, said converting of said source image based on the intensities of said source image;
- c) storing said computer image file into a database;
- d) accessing said computer image file for further processing;
- e) processing said computer image file using a software program;
- f) accessing a controller;
- g) instructing said controller control a CNC cutting machine;
- h) controlling said CNC cutting machine to slice a surface of said sheet of material based on the computer image file, thereby creating an image on the surface of the sheet of material similar to the source image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.