Patent ID: 7003364

Claim:
A process for achieving decór on a surface, the surface having desired dimensions and comprising a plurality of surface elements, the surface elements comprising a decorative upper layer, a supporting core, and edges comprising at least one of a tongue and groove, the process comprising: i) selecting a main decor via a terminal, the selected main decor emanating from a group consisting of an archetype digitised via digital camera or scanner and a digitised decor from a database; ii) calculating an intermediate distance, wherein the intermediate distance corresponds to a distance needed to form at least one of the tongue and groove on the surface elements; and entering dimensions of the surface to be covered by surface elements and the desired dimension of the decór into the terminal and using support programs for calculating a segmentation of the decór to cover more than one surface element, whereby at least one surface element is provided with the intermediate distance, iii) displaying a result of the selections and calculations via the terminal; and, iv) forming at least one of a tongue and a groove on an edge of at least one surface element.