Picture framing
Mounts with their windows and frames from their mouldings, for the mat cutter and the moulding order.
Mounts (mats) with their windows, frames from their mouldings, and the glass and backing board to fit.
What you can design
5 parametric designs come in the library's Picture framing 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 Picture framing, 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.
Housing and rebate marks
Housing (dado) and rebate marks parallel to an edge.
Mount Aperture
A mount's window, square or oval, its bottom weighted, with its bevel line.
Multi-Aperture Mount
Rows and columns of windows in one mount.
V-Groove
A V-groove round a mount's window.
On the toolbar's Allowance button
Mitre Frame
A frame's four mitred pieces round a picture, with their cut lengths.
Exports
File › Export › Export… lists these formats first for a Picture framing 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: laser (LightBurn)
LightBurn Projects
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Emulator: laser (SVG)
SVG for Glowforge and xTool
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Emulator: mat cutter (DXF)
Mat Cutter DXF
ParametrIQ machine emulator
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Gunnar CMC (DXF for GMC)
Mat Cutter DXF
Gunnar computerised mat cutters with Gunnar Mat Cutter (GMC) software
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Gunnar CMC (PLT for GMC)
Mat Cutter HP-GL
Gunnar computerised mat cutters with Gunnar Mat Cutter (GMC) software
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LightBurn laser (project)
LightBurn Projects
CO2, diode and fibre lasers run by LightBurn (Ruida, Trocen, TopWisdom, GRBL, Galvo)
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Valiani CMC (DXF for V-Studio)
Mat Cutter DXF
Valiani computerised mat cutters (Optima, Invicta, Mat Pro) with V-Studio or OptiCrop
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Wizard CMC (DXF for FrameShop)
Mat Cutter DXF
Wizard International computerised mat cutters with FrameShop (Trace Editor / PathTrace)
Reports
File › Reports… works these out from the drawing, to save as a web page or as CSV:
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Moulding order list
For each frame (the Mitre Frame tool's, or the library's Frame moulding cut list).
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…