Material Management

The lumber tab presents a list of materials and their thicknesses seen in the model. With each material type you should provide a Width and Length to be used as the default size when mapping.

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Optionally, you can create and manage an inventory list of alternate board sizes to be used before the default size is used. To create the inventory, select the edit button edit_button next to the material type under the title Stock.

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The material list you create has the following properties:

  • defines the inventory of this material type that can be used across multiple models

  • can be commercially available board sizes you have or plan to use

  • can be scraps and offcuts of various sizes

  • defines the order material will be used, smallest first is recommended

  • defines a finite number of boards to be used before an infinite number of default size boards