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in Grave Stones - Monumental
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The day of hand cut lettering and designs on tombstones and
stone monuments is fast disappearing. Now most stone
embellishment is done by sand blasting. The sand is blasted
through a soft plastic or rubber mat cut much like a very
thick stencil. The mat is used once and discarded. The job is to create the design on paper then transfer the design to the mat for hand cutting with sharp knives. Many mats are still produced this way. |
Laser
or water jet cutting would reduce the time considerably but
the laser/water jet cutting machines require Numerical
Control code as a vector file from a CAD software. The
problem is how to get the design sketch from paper into
CAD. To solve this the sketches are scanned to a raster file and automatically converted to vectors by TracTrix to vectors for use in the CAD software. The design vectors are edited and scaled to fit the stone monument in CAD and exported to the NC software for cutting the mat. |
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