Digitising Patterns For The Manufacturing of Glass, Stone and Metal Products
Tough But Smooth
Hard materials such as stone, metal, glass, plywood and plastic require adequate machines for cutting. These machines typically use a saw, laser or routing heads to accomplish the task.
Why iDigit ?
Whether your products are made of metal sheets, stone (marble, granite etc.), glass or other similar hard material, we have an iDigit solution that suits your template digitising requirements.
More than a digitising system
The one common requirement while cutting these materials is smoothness, which back propagates this essential requirement one step back, namely to the digitising process.
Often such templates have cut-outs and round holes and they require their corners to be rounded to prevent cracks and similar faults, which means the exported data can’t be made of polylines to represent curves. CAD entities such as circles, lines and Arcs which are more sutiable for the cutting machinery provide the smooth results that are needed in these industries.
This requirement can be satisfied by using iDigit’s General DXF and SVG formats.
Even if patterns are created from scratch in iDigit using the spline tool, iDigit automatically converts the curves into a series of lines and Arcs. While adding or moving patterns or their internal elements, these features of iDigit prove to be very handy:
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Customisable grid
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Alignment assistant
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Snap feature
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Adding vertex at a distance
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Breaking segments into multiple sub-segments
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Rounding corners with a radius
Sample Installations
iDigit Lite | Metal Sheets
United Kingdom
This iDigit Lite system is customised to be used in a horizontal manner, so that metal templates could be laid on the surface easily. The camera is attached to an adjustable boom and photos are shot automatically.
iDigit Lite | Plywood
China
This is another example of a customised iDigit Lite system with a horizontal board and camera rig overhead. The client usually digitises thick material such as card and plywood.
iDigit XL | Glass
United Kingdom
This 300x150 cm iDigit XL system is customised by the client, which allows the board to be stowed against the wall when not in use, thanks to the table bed with hinges. Our client uses plywood templates for producing glass products.
iDigit Lite | Stone Products
United Kingdom
This iDigit XL system is used to digitise correx patterns, which are used to produce kitchen tops made of stones such as marble and granite.