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Waste

An allowance added on top of what you measured.

Why you would use it

You never order exactly what you measure. Sheets are cut, ends are lost, and a percentage on top is how the trade covers it.

For example

What to do

Open the group.
Type a percentage.

Going further

It’s applied after any slope factor and any multiplier, and before deductions. The exported Working table shows each step with its running total, so the final number can always be checked by hand.

Keep going

Look It UpTake-off groupA named line in your bill that several measurements add up into.
Look It UpExport take-offWrites three tables: the bill, one line per take-off group; the working, every step of how each quantity was reached so it can be checked by hand; and the measurements the register is showing, with the page and the scale each was taken under. Quantities are recomputed as the file is written, so nothing in it can have drifted from the drawing.
Do a JobGroup measurements into lines of your billA group is one line of your bill. Measurements go into it and add up, with waste, a multiplier or a pitch applied on top.

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Written for DatoMark 0.1.1-trial.1. These pages are made from the same words as Help inside the program, so the two cannot disagree.