How to use Maxcut in Imperial

[Leif-Norsemen]

I recently purchased these plans and was going through the MaxCut\Mobile Workbench to start looking at the cut list and noticed that each of the sheets are a little different than any sheet of 4x8 plywood I've ever seen. I'm using the Imperial conversion in MaxCut and it's showing 9'9/32" x 6'1/16" as the dimensions for the cut list of the 5/8" sheet. (The other sheets have the same overall dimensions)

Is there a trick to get the layout to work properly in Imperial and to work with 4x8 sheets of plywood? This is my first time ever using plans as I've always just done my own drawings and planned everything in my head. (Obviously I'm not a professional woodworker for my day job. )

Thanks in advance for the assistance!

[Suso]

hi Leif,

what is happening to you is that when you talk about boards of 4'x8', that's feet not inches. When performing the conversion the program is changing the board to inches, not feet.

I don't know if the program has a way to change the board to feet and keep the small pieces in inches.

Another way to do it is export the measurements of the pieces in inches and an excel file, then you have to open a new file in Maxcut and create your own boards in feet and with the correct measurements and then import the excel file. I think you're going to have to tell the program which board to use for each piece. You can also calculate the exact inches of the 4'x8' feet board and create the boards in inches,

You can also send a question to the program support, maybe you can do it in another way.

[JimParker256]

Apparently, most of the "metric world" is supplied with sheet goods (plywood, etc) that are considerably larger than we get here in the USA, where it's 4ft x 8ft, at best. Seems like 2500mm X 1250mm is the standard elsewhere.
To change the sheet goods size, select the "Input Items" tab in MaxCut, then select the "Materials" item from the icon ribbon. Select "Sheet" from the drop-down menu, and you should see a list of sheet materials that you can edit (one at a time) to change the size to 1219mm X 2348mm so it correctly reflects the 4ft x 8ft sizes we get here in the US.
Hope that helps.

[wil_g9@hotmail.com]

Hi, thanks for the input! I have a similar question, but I'm more concerned with the depth.

It looks like the materials for the workbench are in 18mm plywood, 15mm, and 9mm. Since US plywood typically comes in 3/4in, 1/2in, and 1/4in, does anyone have any ideas for using those thicknesses instead? The LxW I'm not worried about because I can always get an extra sheet or something, but the thickness being off seems like it would throw things off all over the plan.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Will

[jboyer5774]

Hi, thanks for the input! I have a similar question, but I'm more concerned with the depth.

It looks like the materials for the workbench are in 18mm plywood, 15mm, and 9mm. Since US plywood typically comes in 3/4in, 1/2in, and 1/4in, does anyone have any ideas for using those thicknesses instead? The LxW I'm not worried about because I can always get an extra sheet or something, but the thickness being off seems like it would throw things off all over the plan.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Will

I'm wondering the same thing.......is it 3/4, 1/2 and 1/4, or 3/4, 5/8

[Suso]

hi jboyer5774, these are the best approximations for each board thickness:

18mm= (3/4) 19,05mm
15mm= (5/8) 15,8mm