8. A method for creating a triangulated surface convertible to a series a machine readable instructions, the method comprising: defining a shape for placement of text and/or symbols; defining the text and/or symbols for placement on the shape; placing the text and/or symbols on the shape as a first set of triangulated surfaces; identifying areas for clean up by estimating where sharp edges are likely to result and generating clean-up lines for the elimination of sharp edges and burrs the clean-up lines defining trimmed surfaces; generating a second set of triangulated surfaces from the trimmed surfaces; and converting the sets of triangulated surfaces to machine readable instructions for generation of a customized item.
8. A method for creating a triangulated surface convertible to a series a machine readable instructions, the method comprising: defining a shape for placement of text and/or symbols; defining the text and/or symbols for placement on the shape; placing the text and/or symbols on the shape as a first set of triangulated surfaces; identifying areas for clean up by estimating where sharp edges are likely to result and generating clean-up lines for the elimination of sharp edges and burrs the clean-up lines defining trimmed surfaces; generating a second set of triangulated surfaces from the trimmed surfaces; and converting the sets of triangulated surfaces to machine readable instructions for generation of a customized item. 14. The method of claim 8 , wherein the triangulated surfaces are converted to machine readable instructions for the generation of a tool path.