For roll goods, trimming margin should always be considered at either roll or piece cuts to avoid material short and installation quality.

 

Trimming Margin can be specified by several ways in the program (depending on one’s best practice):

1.      At Material Spec level, entering a smaller Estimating Width than the nominal width of material to allow width level margin (this will accommodate trimming on both sides of carpet), for example, 11’8” for 12’ carpet. Secondly, enter Cut Margin for each roll stock cut (so to accommodate the trimming at length direction). Depicted in the material spec screen below.

 

 

 

2.      At Measurement  level, many estimators adds the cut margin by adding a few inches (say 4” in the example above) to each of room size measurements at the time of creating the rooms.

3.      At Room level, right-click over the room, select Properties, enter a size in Room  Expansion field to account for the extra margin to cover. There are other uses for this feature such as self-coving (please visit Self Coving Layout section)

 

 

 

 Minimum Fill-Piece Width: The program maintains 1’ (1 FT) minimum fill-piece width when arranging the initial cuts. User can re-adjust the cut by drag-and-drop.

 

 

 

 To Control the Number of T-Seams at Room Level: At the material spec window, enter maximum allowed number of T-seams in a room area.