HI-ACCURACY THREE-DIMENSIONAL TOPOGRAPHIC MODELING APPARATUS

摘要

A cutting apparatus that includes a hi-accuracy three-dimensional cutting apparatus for topographic modeling (62) that is electronically coupled with a computer that executes intructions (12). The executable computer instructions of the system (12) include one or more algorithms for converting the complex and randomly- occurring contours found in natural terrain into an efficient series of modeling material removal swaths defined in simplified 2- axis cross-sections that are cut adjacent and parallel to one another (58). In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the swaths are defined in simplified 2-axis surface contour-following rotation cutting means moved by the system's CPU, driver software, driver circuitry and/or logic circuitry. This multi-axis control means of the system assures that each of the swaths are seamlessly rendered next to one another while also maintaining an optimal proximity between the upper surface of the 3D model and the rotation cutting means.