How do I use the Cut and Fit option for Tile Calc Method?
In this article, we will be going over all the estimating settings for Cut and Fit.
This article applies to MeasureSquare 8 Desktop version
What is Cut and Fit?
- Count the tile piece by piece. MeasureSquare will try and reuse remnants of a tile that are smaller than 50%.
The "Additional Percent Waste ratio" is equivalent to "Attic Stock" which is an extra percentage you want to add the calculated waste ratio. Minimum Waste is if the additional waste + calculated waste is smaller than the Minimum Waste Ratio, it will use the Minimum Waste Ratio on the report.
For the example below, we have 10% for minimum waste. If The additional waste 5% plus calculated waste does not give us more than 10%, then the software will automatically calculate and use that minimum waste at 10% that we input in.
- Fixed Texture Matching: When selected, it does not allow tile rotating or using factory edge preferably. All tiles must be laid in the same direction.
- Allow rotation: When selected, the program will rotate the tile when necessary to achieve minimum waste or use factory edge.
- Prefer Factory Edge: When selected, the program will preferably use factory edge around the boundary. The factory is annotated using red diamonds.
- Max Cut Times: It specifies how many cuts allowed per tile.
- Cut Margin: Similar to carpet cuts, it gives installers some error tolerance space when making cuts.
- Waste Share Option: It defines the scope to share tile waste, at the project level, tab level or at room level.
- Waste Share Radius: It defines a 3D sphere in which tiles can share the waste. If the sphere includes the walls, the tile waste can be shared between the floor and walls. By default, the distance is infinity.
Ignore Tiny Size: If we have a cut piece of tile smaller than the size we input in for ignore tiny size, the software will ignore those tiny pieces.
For example: You can see from the room below where all the pieces on the left side of the room are 2" the software will ignore these pieces because we told the software to ignore tiny pieces that are less than 3".
These tiny pieces will get completely ignored and does not get included in the calculation at all since we're assuming that we have enough waste to cover these tiny pieces