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Sheet 03 · imperial

Fractions, as you write them.

Type 15 3/4. Not 15.75. Not 15-3/4. The way it is written on the tape, on the drawing, and on the back of the offcut.

Set the unit, then forget about it

Choose inches (fractions) in the calculator and every field on the page starts speaking imperial, including the blade width. The plan, the drawings and the printed cut list all come back in fractions. Nothing is silently rounded into a decimal and handed back to you as 15.749999.

What you can type

You writeIt reads
9696 in
15 3/415¾ in
3/8⅜ in
1' 3 3/41 ft 3¾ in, or 15¾ in
8'8 ft, or 96 in
15.7515¾ in. Decimals still work

Feet and inches, a bare fraction, a mixed number, or a decimal. Mix them down the same column if you like. Each row is read on its own terms.

The blade takes a fraction too

This is the field people skip, and it is the one that decides whether the last piece fits. An 1/8 in blade is 1/8. Type it in the kerf box exactly like that. Make forty cuts with a 1/8 in blade and you have turned five inches of stock into sawdust, which is often precisely the piece you come up short by.

Feet in, inches out

Stock usually comes in feet and gets cut in inches, so you can write it however it arrives. 8' in the stock row and 15 3/4 in the cuts is a perfectly normal cut list, and the plan will work in inches throughout without you converting anything.

What comes back

Every bar drawn to scale, each cut dimensioned in fractions along the bottom, and the offcut measured at the end: the number that tells you whether the tail goes back on the rack or in the bin. Print it and it goes on the wall by the saw.

Try it → No account, and it takes about a minute.