Well, digital templating is a way of templating without making physical templates. There are a few digital templating machines on the market, some use lasers and others use a wire. The market leader is Proliner as it is the most accurate and user friendly. We at Shaw Stone use the top spec Proliner 8-series. See it in action on our about us page. The biggest advantage to using digital templaters is accuracy when templating granite worktops or quartz engineered worktops (i.e. Silestone). The accuracy of the Proliner is with 0.5mm over 3 metres. By creating such highly accurate digital drawings which can be fed into our state of the art CNC computerised saw the end result is a granite worktop which fits perfectly. However at £15,000 per templating machine and £80,000 for the CNC saw only premium fabricators such as Shaw Stone use this technology!
Robert Shaw
