How to Use a Gerber Digitizer
Gerber Scientific provides products for sign-making, specialty graphics, and textile industries. Gerber Technology, a branch of Gerber Scientific, manufactures digitizers, also known as graphic tablets or electronic work surfaces. When you use a hand-held instrument called a transducer, a puck, cursor, or stylus pen, on the surface of a digitizer, it transforms the information into data for computer processing. Digitizers may be used by CAD operators, estimators, or by manufacturers, such as in the textile industry.
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Instructions
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Tape your sketch of the design you want to transform onto your tablet securely. The digitizer will immediately transfer the information about your template into your affiliated computer software, such as CutWorks or AccuMark.
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Trace the lines of your design sketch using the digitizing cursor, also known as the puck. The puck has a clear plastic circle at the top of it. You will notice a horizontal line and a vertical line in the shape of a cross or plus sign within the plastic circle. Place the cursor on the design shape and trace the outline of your design by positioning the horizontal line in the cursor circle directly over the line of your design. If your template was a square shape, for example, you would place the puck in any corner, trace along one length and then continue tracing each side until you have traced the entire square with the cursor. Tracing the outline of your design will automatically store all the information into the Gerber's CAD system. It will then be ready for you to modify or nest in the CAD system.
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Use your affiliated CAD system to edit the image that you scanned into your computer to produce the final result that you wish to achieve.
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Scan camera-ready designs into your computer with the digitizer the same way you would scan an original design by tracing its outline with the puck.
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Tips & Warnings
Whether you use your own design or you scan a ready-made image, the original design will be preserved.
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