Picture Framing
Mounts (mats) with their windows, frames from their mouldings, and the glass and backing board to fit. A drawing whose industry is Picture framing offers these tools in the toolbar and in Edit › Tool.
Tools
| Tool | Does | |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Aperture | A mount's window, square or oval, its bottom weighted | |
| Multi-Aperture Mount | A grid of windows in one mount | |
| V-Groove | A V-groove round a mount's window | |
| Mitre Frame | A frame's four mitred pieces from its moulding | |
| Housing | A housing (dado) or a rebate across a board |
The production tools for every industry, Registration Mark and Drill Hole, are offered too.
A mount's windows are cut with a bevel on a mount cutter; the library's designs weight the bottom margin, as framers do.
For a shaped window, draw or import the shape (a logo, a heart, lettering) and subtract it from the mount board with the general Boolean Tool; union the mount with the frame's outline in the same way. The window follows the shape and the mount's sizes.
Designs in the library
File › Run Parametric… has a Picture framing folder (see Run Parametric); a drawing made from one of its designs is for this industry:
| Design | What it is |
|---|---|
| Double mount | An under mount and a top mount sized from the picture |
| Frame moulding cut list | The four mitred pieces of moulding, with their lengths |
| Glass and backing board | The glass, backing board and mount blank for a rebate size |
| Oval and circle mount | A mount with an oval or round window |
| Window mount | A mount with one window, or a grid of them |
Cutting mounts and ordering moulding
- Mat cutters: File › Export › Export… writes a mount for a computerised mat cutter's software as Mat Cutter DXF or Mat Cutter HP-GL: the outside a straight cut, the windows bevel cuts, the V-grooves and (if you want them) the bevel lines each on a layer or pen of their own, in the order a mat cutter cuts them. The Wizard, Gunnar and Valiani machine profiles write it for those cutters in one click (File › Send Using Machine Profile).
- The moulding order list: File › Reports… › Moulding order list lists each frame's pieces, the moulding to order (chopped to size, or in whole lengths with the mitre waste, saw cuts and an offcut allowance) and the glazing, mount board and backing that fit; save it as CSV or print it. See Reports.
Machine profiles
Make It (File › Export › Make It, Ctrl+Shift+M, or the Make It button at the top of the window) writes the mat cutter's file (Wizard CMC (DXF for FrameShop)) and the Moulding order 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: Wizard CMC (DXF for FrameShop), Gunnar CMC (DXF for GMC), Gunnar CMC (PLT for GMC), Valiani CMC (DXF for V-Studio), LightBurn laser (project). See Export by Industry and Machine Profiles.
See also: Industries and Tool Sets, Tools.