Stone and Tile

Worktops, vanity tops, splashbacks and tiling, cut on a saw or a water-jet: slabs with their cut-outs and grooves, inlays, and tile layouts with the whole and cut tiles counted. A drawing whose industry is Stone and tile offers these tools in the toolbar and in Edit › Tool.

Tools

	Tool	Does
	Cut-Out	A sink, hob or socket cut-out, or a tap hole, set back from the front edge and along it
	Tile Setting-Out	Tiles over an area, stack or brick bond, set out from a point or the middle; whole and cut tiles counted
	Drainer Grooves	A draining board's grooves
	Water-Jet Inlay	An inlay's piece and its opening, with a fit clearance; a mosaic's pieces
	Edge Allowance	A slab's cutting size, oversize for the edge work
	Fitting Notch	A notch round a pipe or a pillar, its inner corners rounded
	Corners	Corners rounded, clipped or notched
	Hole Pattern	Holes measured from an edge, or round a centre
	Lead	A water-jet's lead-in and lead-out, off the part
	Room Outline	A room (or a wall) from its lengths and turns
	Edge Profile	A finished edge marked with its profile (polished, bullnose, ogee …), for the quote
	Slab Photo	A slab's photo placed full size by its corners, to lay the pieces out over it

For a worktop's template from the walls' measurements, draw its outline from the walls as you measure them with the Room Outline tool of the carpets and flooring tools.

File › Check Design (and every machine export) checks the holes in a Stone and tile drawing as it does glass: too near an edge, a notch, a cut-out, a corner or another hole for the slab's thickness, and the inner corners of cut-outs and notches, each to be rounded to at least 10 mm (0.375 in), as quartz and stone makers ask (see Holes near edges on the Glass page), and that each cut-out has at least 50 mm (2 in) of stone round it (see Notches and cut-outs).

Templates from digitisers

File › Import › Import Stone Template… brings in a template measured on site with a digitiser (a Prodim Proliner, a Laser Products LT-55 or LT-2D3D, or any that writes DXF): the pieces' outlines with their cut-outs, and the profiles of their edges where the template says them, its layers read by their names (SINK, COOKTOP, BULLNOSE …) or by your shop's own rules. See Stone Templates from Digitisers.

Edges, cut-outs and slabs

A stone drawing says what it is made of in a way the quote and the shop read:

Pieces: closed outlines on the Cut layer; an outline inside a piece is one of its cut-outs.
A cut-out's kind: a text inside it — Sink, Hob, Tap hole, Socket (or the words fitters and digitisers use: basin, cooktop, faucet, outlet …). A cut-out with none is counted by its shape: a circle up to 65 mm (2.5 in) across is a tap hole, anything else a cut-out.
Finished edges: lines along them on a layer named Edge and the profile — Edge Polished, Edge Full bullnose — as the Edge Profile tool marks them.
Slabs: outlines on the Slab layer, as the Slab Photo tool draws them over a slab's photo; each piece is on the slab its outline is inside.

On a 3D page the cut-outs get their sink, hob and tap, and a worktop can stand on base cabinets (Worktop fixtures).

Quote

File › Reports… › Stone quote lists the pieces with their areas (and less their cut-outs), the finished edges by profile in metres (feet), the cut-outs by kind, and the slabs with their yield; and prices the job: the stone and its fabrication by area (each piece's, less the cut-outs, or the whole slabs, with a waste allowance), each profile by the metre, each kind of cut-out each, and fixed costs. Save it as CSV, or as a web page to print. See Reports.

Designs in the library

File › Run Parametric… has a Stone and tile folder (see Run Parametric):

Design	What it is
L-shaped worktop	Two legs joined butt or mitred, a sink cut-out and tap hole, a hob cut-out, drainer grooves
Vanity top	A slab with one or two basin cut-outs, tap holes or a mixer, and upstands
Splashback and upstands	A splashback with socket cut-outs, and the upstands along the rest of the wall
Wall tile layout	A wall set out with tiles of a size and bond, the whole and cut tiles counted

A template to lay on the slab prints full size with File › Export › Export Tiled Print…: on A4, A3 or Letter sheets with overlaps, alignment crosses and a test square, to tape together. See Tiled print.

Machine profiles

Make It (File › Export › Make It, Ctrl+Shift+M, or the Make It button at the top of the window) writes the waterjet's DXF (Waterjet (DXF, cut and etch)) 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: Waterjet (DXF, cut and etch), CNC router (DXF, depth in the layer names). See Export by Industry and Machine Profiles.

See also: Industries and Tool Sets, Tools.