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 write | It reads |
|---|---|
96 | 96 in |
15 3/4 | 15¾ in |
3/8 | ⅜ in |
1' 3 3/4 | 1 ft 3¾ in, or 15¾ in |
8' | 8 ft, or 96 in |
15.75 | 15¾ 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.