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Indiana Cut Stone has extensive experience creating perfectly matched replacement stone for Indiana Limestone restoration projects.
3D Imaging
3D IMAGING DUPLICATES three-dimensional surfaces using computer-driven, laser-scanning process that allows for three-axis dimensioning. Once the subject is scanned, the computer co-joins the scans, technicians edit the process and the 3D surface is created. Where areas of stone are missing, artist technicians recreate the missing pieces. Once the three-dimensional models are created, they are converted to machine readable code and sent to a CNC cutter at the Indiana Cut Stone mill facility. The cutter heads are driven by the computer and cut the program into a limestone blank, using a variety of tooling. Depending on the job and the machine used, the process yields a semi-finished product ready for hand finishing, or, in some cases, a completely finished piece ready to be installed in place of the damaged limestone.
Photo Reproduction
WHERE SAMPLE SECTIONS are missing, the damaged sections may be restored, based on old photographs of the limestone before it was destroyed. Skilled artists take the photograph, adjust its dimensions to actual size, convert the data to a 3D model on the computer, and then convert the model to machine code to feed to the CNC cutter. The cutter creates a duplicate of the original section of missing stone.
Tracing
IN SOME CASES, artists take tracing of remaining pieces of the original stonework and transpose the designs to fit into missing sections of limestone. The drawings then go
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