Carpets and Flooring
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. A drawing whose industry is Carpets and flooring offers these tools in the toolbar and in Edit › Tool.
Tools
| Tool | Does | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 pile's direction | |
| Doorway | A threshold cut-out on a wall | |
| Stair Template | A stair runner, or tread and riser pieces | |
| Rug Border | A rug's border and binding | |
| Carpet Inlay | An inlay piece to match a cut in the field |
The production tools for every industry, Registration Mark and Drill Hole, are offered too.
Outlines are cut on layer 0; a rug's border and binding go on the Border layer.
Designs in the library
File › Run Parametric… has a Carpets and flooring folder (see Run Parametric); a drawing made from one of its designs is for this industry:
| Design | What it is |
|---|---|
| Door mat with logo area | An entrance mat with a border round a logo area |
| L-shaped room cut plan | An L-shaped room's carpet in drops off the roll, with the seams and the waste |
| Oval rug | An oval rug with its border and binding |
| Rectangular rug | A rug in a standard size or your own, with its border, binding and fringe |
| Round rug | A round rug with its border and binding |
| Runner with rounded ends | A hall or stair runner, its ends round or rounded |
| Stair tread templates | A carpet piece for each step of a flight, numbered, or one runner up it |
Roll cut list, seam diagram and cut plan
File › Reports… › Carpet roll cut list works from the Roll Layout: each drop's length on the floor and as cut (with the trim at both ends, rounded up to a patterned carpet's repeat), the roll length to order, the floor and roll areas, the waste, the seams and a price. Saved as a web page, it has the seam diagram (the room, the drops numbered, the seams and the pile direction) and the cut plan (the drops along the roll) to print, or save as PDF from the browser, for the fitter. See Reports.
In 3D
3D › Fold in 3D shows a carpet plan as its room: walls round it, the carpet laid with its pile running along the drops and the seams grooved. See Materials, measuring and sections › A carpet plan as a room.
Machine profiles
Make It (File › Export › Make It, Ctrl+Shift+M, or the Make It button at the top of the window) writes the plotter's file (Pattern plotter (HP-GL/2)) and the Carpet roll cut list as CSV in one click, beside the drawing, after checking the design: see Make It.
File › Export › Export… lists this trade's formats first. File › Send Using Machine Profile sends the drawing to a machine in one click, with the format, options, layer names and pens it needs; those that come with the app for this trade: Pattern plotter (HP-GL/2). See Export by Industry and Machine Profiles.
See also: Industries and Tool Sets, Tools.