Carpets and flooring
Rooms measured, drops laid off the roll, seams and pile direction planned before the first cut.
Rugs, mats and runners cut to shape, and carpet laid in a room: its outline, the drops off the roll, the seams, the pile's direction, doorways and stairs.
What you can design
7 parametric designs come in the library's Carpets and flooring folder (File › Run Parametric…): open one, type your sizes and the drawing follows. Open any of them in the viewer to try it.
The trade's tools
For a drawing whose industry is Carpets and flooring, the toolbar and Edit › Tool offer these tools beside the general drawing, editing and dimensioning tools. Each is parametric: change a size, or move a point it was drawn on, and what it made follows.
Room Outline
A room from its wall lengths and turns.
Roll Layout
Carpet or underlay drops, their seams, the roll length and the waste.
Pile Arrow
The way the pile runs.
Doorway
A threshold cut-out on a room's wall.
Stair Template
A stair runner with its folds, or tread and riser pieces.
Rug Border
A rug's border and binding lines.
Carpet Inlay
An inlay piece to match a cut in the field, an allowance larger.
Exports
File › Export › Export… lists these formats first for a Carpets and flooring drawing:
And the formats every trade uses:
Machine profiles
File › Send Using Machine Profile sends the drawing to a machine in one click, with the format, options, layer names and pens it needs. These come with the app:
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Emulator: plotter / cutter (HP-GL)
HP-GL
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Emulator: plotter / cutter (HP-GL/2)
HP-GL
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Pattern plotter (HP-GL/2)
HP-GL
Pattern and marker plotters that read HP-GL/2 (HP DesignJet, Gerber / Lectra / Algotex plotters)
Reports
File › Reports… works these out from the drawing, to save as a web page or as CSV:
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Carpet roll cut list
From each roll layout (or a design's ROLLPLAN).
Read more
The help's page for the trade describes each tool, design, report and export in full.
Other trades
Get ParametrIQ CAD
Included in every plan. Install it, activate it, and start with File › New or File › Run Parametric…