Patent ID: 7469620

Claim:
A method for producing at least diversion for utilizing a cutting tool for cutting a workpiece into a plurality of prescribed parts from a material block, comprising the steps of: (a) identifying each of the prescribed parts by one or more identifying contour lines; (b) beginning cutting the workpiece along a first of said identifying contour lines into a first of the prescribed parts; (c) cutting at least one diversion from said first of said identifying contour lines in scrap material of the workpiece between said first of the prescribed parts and a second of the prescribed parts, wherein cutting said at least one diversion produces an associated opportunity to start cutting said second of the prescribed parts along a second of said identifying contour lines; (d) finishing cutting the workpiece along said first of said identifying contour lines into said first prescribed part; (e) cutting the workpiece from said associated opportunity to said second of said identifying contour lines; (f) cutting the workpiece along said second of said identifying contour lines into said second of the prescribed parts.