Digitizing

Template to CAD.

We scan your soft or hard templates into our wide format scanner that can handle widths up to 1370mm (54″). No template has ever been too big for us, 1370mm x 6800mm is currently the largest we have done.

Before the scan begins, we attach calibration labels at 50mm in the X and Y directions. In the first scan, we scan an original copy in grayscale that we save and archive in TIFF format. The second scan is done in black and white to be able to use a filter that removes unwanted dots and other inclusions found in the raw material from the template.

When the scan is complete, we then create a new layer and convert the existing template profile/contour to a Polyline. After the fine-tuning is complete, we save it in DXF format, but also other formats if desired.

To ensure that the DXF file we have created is error-free, it is run in a virtual CNC machine with appropriate tools.

Advantages.

We never destroy the customer’s original.
Your customers only need to make the template on soft cardboard, such as regular protective cardboard.
Easier handling, soft paper templates are easily sent in a tube.
Get enormously high profile tolerance, compared to other methods on the market, outer/inner profile, exact center point of the circle, hole pattern.
You save valuable machine time.
Do what you do best.
Ask your customers to send their templates to us directly.
You will receive the finished DXF via e-mail.

Download our guide here.