Patent ID: 7054708
Filing Date: 2006-05-30
Classification: B26D,B26F,B31F

Abstract:
1. A method for cutting sheet material comprising: providing a cutting apparatus operable to cut sheet material under control of a processing apparatus; providing at least one of one or more predefined fonts and a plurality of predefined shapes stored on readable media with one or more associated predefined cut lines and one or more predefined emboss lines; providing a user interface to a user, wherein the user interface allows a user to insert at least one of text and one or more shapes in a graphical design using the one or more predefined fonts and the plurality of predefined shapes, wherein the graphical design is defined by one or more cut lines and one or more emboss lines based on the one or more cut lines and the one or more emboss lines associated with the one or more predefined fonts and the plurality of predefined shapes; inserting sheet material into the cutting apparatus; compressing the sheet material under control of a compress signal generated by the processing apparatus that is representative of the one or more emboss lines defined for the graphical design; and cutting the graphical design defined by the cut lines under control of a cut signal generated by the processing apparatus that is representative of the one or more cut lines defined for the graphical design, wherein the one or more emboss lines are the same as the one or more cut lines.