An electronic cutting machine includes at least one housing to which a drive roller is coupled for moving a sheet to be cut in a first direction and a cutter assembly coupled to the housing and moveable in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction.

An adsorption positioning device suitable for installation on a cutting machine, which is suitable for cutting a material unit, includes a platform and two platen units. The platform includes a table for supporting the material unit, and a plurality of air holes extending through the table. The platen units are disposed on the table. The table and each platen unit are configured for cooperating with a lateral side of the material unit to define a channel that communicates with corresponding ones of air holes. The channel and the air holes are suitable for causing the material unit to be adsorbed on the table under a negative pressure state.

Disclosed herein is a technique that improves material efficiency in generating garments and textiles that include graphics. A given product is sorted into cut patterns used to assemble the product. Graphics are digitally applied to each cut pattern in order to generate abstract cut patterns including aligned graphics. Blank cut patterns are nested across a virtual sheet of fabric in a 2D space without any consideration to the graphics. The nested cut patterns implement the abstract cut patterns that include graphics. The graphics are aligned to the positions of the cut patterns according to the nesting scheme. Print instructions including nested cut patterns with aligned graphics are delivered to a printer that executes the print job. The cut patterns are cut away from the fabric sheet including graphic designs that are aligned with the cut patterns.

The invention relates to a machine (1) for fluid jet cutting of a workpiece (2), comprising a stand (4) with two essentially parallel guides (6, 8) at a distance from each other. A control unit (15) is configured to control the motion of the bar, the bar (14) carries one or more fluid jet cutting tools (16A-D). Each end of the bar are arranged to the guides via a first journal means (18A) and a second journal means (20A). The machine comprises a workpiece position measuring equipment (22x, 22x, 22x) for sensing at least two reference positions (x, x, x) of the workpiece (2), and the control unit (15) is configured to operate the motion of the bar (14) from the reference position values (x, x, x) and other operational data. The invention also relates to a method for fluid jet cutting of a workpiece. The invention also relates to a computer program at a machine for fluid jet cutting of a workpiece. The invention also relates to a computer program product at a machine for fluid jet cutting of a workpiece.

An automated sheet material cutting and handling system for producing sheet material articles having a planar shape comprises a cutting surface with a suction hold-down, a suction lifting apparatus, a robotic actuation system for moving the suction lifting apparatus, and a control system for controlling the operation of the cutting device and the suction lifting apparatus. The suction lifting apparatus comprises a suction lifting head including a suction lifting portion comprising a suction lifting plate for applying suction through a plurality of holes in the plate. The control system is configured to operate the cutting device to make at least one cut through the planiform blanks. A resiliently compressible template is adhered to the suction lifting plate. Also, methods.

A method for creating and using a repositionable adhesive coated slip sheet is described herein. This repositionable adhesive coated slip sheet attaches to a worktable and temporarily anchors a substrate and its cutouts while the substrate is cut. The method principally comprises the steps of placing a layer of adhesive onto the top surface of a binding layer, placing the binding layer onto a worktable, placing a substrate onto the layer of adhesive, cutting the substrate with a blade, and then removing the cut substrate from the layer of adhesive, wherein the parts cut therefrom are prevented from moving, slipping, or falling off of the worktable during the cutting process. This allows the substrate and the cutouts cut therefrom to be removed from the worktable at the completion of the cutting process without damage to the worktable, cutter, or substrate.

Disclosed is a cutting machine knife designed for kiss-cut cutting of a sticker. A sticker backing includes a backing layer and an adhesion-reducing layer. The sticker includes a cover layer and an adhesive layer releasably adhered to the adhesion-reducing layer. The cutting machine knife includes a holding section for inserting the cutting machine knife into a knife holder of the cutting tool, a longitudinal axis disposed at a right angle to a cutting direction, a blade having a cutting edge and a back. The cutting edge, when viewed in a plane defined by the cutting direction and the longitudinal axis, forms with the cutting direction a first angle which is less than 90 and an intermediate zone between the cutting edge and the back which, again when viewed in said plane, encloses with the cutting direction a second angle which is between 130 and 170.

A cutter is positioned at a cutting position according to a virtual coordinate system. Media is cut at the cutting position using the cutter to create a cut. The actual location of the cut in the media is detected and the virtual coordinate system is calibrated based on an offset between the cutting position and the actual cut location.

A device for processing a flexible sheet includes a worktop for placement thereon of a flexible sheet to be processed. A processing device is provided above the worktop and a positioning device is provided for positioning the processing device on the flexible sheet and moving it along a straight processing line in the plane of the flexible sheet. The device also includes orientation device for setting the orientation of the processing line as desired.

A method for cutting a workpiece includes cutting the workpiece along a predefined cutting contour to separate a workpiece part from a scrap part, and checking whether the workpiece part has been fully separated from the scrap part during the cutting. The workpiece is re-cut along an additional cutting contour laterally offset from the predefined cutting contour if it is found during the checking that the workpiece part has not been fully separated from the scrap part. The disclosure also relates to an associated machine for cutting a workpiece.