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US 9,519,733 B2Granted
System and method for designing and fabricating string instruments
Assignee3D Systems, Inc.
InventorScott Summit
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Abstract
A computer provides a graphical user interface that allows designers to design string instruments. The dimensions and shape of the string instrument design can be altered using controls. The wind instrument design can be stored in a database and transmitted to a 3 dimensional printer which can fabricate the string instrument.
Claims20
A system for designing an acoustic string instrument comprising:
- a user interface of a computer that displays a digital representation of a body of the acoustic string instrument that includes a soundboard with a sound hole and an internal body volume, the user interface having a plurality of controls that allows altering a design of the body of the acoustic string instrument;
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- a database that stores the design of the body, the soundboard, the soundboard and the internal body volume of the acoustic string instrument.
A system for designing an acoustic string instrument comprising:
- a server coupled to a plurality of client computers through a network, the server providing a user interface to each client computer that displays a digital representation of a body of the acoustic string instrument that includes a soundboard with a sound hole and an internal body volume, the user interface having a plurality of controls that allows altering a design of the body of the acoustic string instrument;
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- a database coupled to the server that stores the design of the body, the soundboard, the soundboard and the internal body volume of the acoustic string instrument.
A method for designing an acoustic string instrument comprising:
- providing a user interface on a computer that displays a digital representation of at least a body of the acoustic string instrument that includes a soundboard with a sound hole and an internal body volume, the user interface having a plurality of controls;
- using the plurality of controls to design of the body of the acoustic string instrument;
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- storing the design of the body, the soundboard, the soundboard and the internal body volume of the acoustic string instrument in a database.
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