OPTIA

• The digital acquisition of scraps profile is done by a webcam optical system, which is able to acquire and to convert a real scrap scenario into a virtual 2D schematic representation.
• Through the positioning of a webcam in proximity of a workbench (machine or an external acquisition station), OPTIA acquires a video streaming which is elaborated in real-time and used to get the image of metal sheet scraps.
• The process elaborates and discretizes the acquired images in order to recognise the geometrical shape of metal sheet and also to save it for his representation in full- scale on nesting cutting software Libellula.WIZARD

OPTIA offers two operative ways for the nesting elaboration:

• Creation of an automatic nesting on the discretized metal sheet KeyShot: photo-realistic rendering
• Use of manual nesting on real photografic representation of metal sheet

Once the nesting is finished, the system will create automatically the NC program which could be o not immediately executed

The scraps digitalisation with OPTIA is possible in any workshop context

• If the metal sheet is acquired directly on board machine, the NC program will be directly used by the machine to make the cutting.
• Instead if the metal sheet is acquired on a station external the machine, the system will be equipped by a second webcam ables to get the position and the guideline of metal sheet positionned on board machine

The system automatically will elaborate again the NC program in order to adapt it to the new metal sheet position and it will be sent to the machine for cutting. It’s possible to avoid the machine uprodutivity related to the downtime of acquisition and preparation of NC program.