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Wood moldings are made by high speed rotating cutters
that define the contour of the molding. These cutters are
themselves cut on Numerically Controlled grinders.
Woodworkers and lumber mills sometimes need to modify an
existing molding design to create a new design. Or they need
to copy an old design for which there is no CAD file. To do
this they have to create a CAD file for use on the NC
grinder to make the new cutter. |
The problem is how to create a CAD file
when only a sample of the molding is available. To get
around this problem the sample molding is sliced to
approximately 1/32 inch and scanned on a flat bed scanner to
a raster file. The raster file is automatically converted by
TracTrix to vectors. These are imported to the CAD file for
scaling, editing and final export to the cutter grinder NC
program. |
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