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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2017
Vandewiele NV, Kortrijk/Marke, BE;
Frank Marijsse, Kortrijk/Marke, BE;
Bram Vanderjeugt, Ypres, BE;
VANDEWIELE NV, Kortrijk/Marke, BE;
Abstract
A method of preparing a tufting process for tufting a fabric comprises the steps of: a) selecting at least one object to be shown on a tufted fabric as a three-dimensional tufting structure element (), b) three-dimensionally scanning the at least one object for providing a set of three-dimensional scan data representing at least a portion of the three-dimensional structure of the at least one object, c) providing a set of tufting instruction data on the basis of the three-dimensional scan data, the tufting instruction data, in association with the at least one three-dimensional tufting structure element () to be tufted, comprising information relating to at least one tufting aspect of the piles to be tufted for providing the at least one three-dimensional tufting structure element ().