Labels

Why labels

One label per cut piece. Stick them on your panels so pieces do not get mixed up. Choose below what you print on: plain paper to cut out, a label sheet, or a label roll.

After four cuts there are eight rectangles on your bench that all look about the same. You cannot see the difference between a side of 1200 and one of 1198, and measuring costs time every time.

What you print on

The initial paper size follows your country: Letter for the United States, A4 elsewhere. Change Paper to match your label sheet. Changing the measurement unit does not change the paper size.

Cut-out sheet

Plain paper with frames on it, which you cut out and attach with tape or a staple. Costs nothing and works fine.

Label sheet

A sheet of self-adhesive labels. Pick the size from the list, or enter your own grid.

Label roll

A label printer with a roll. Give the width and height of one label.

If your sheet is not listed, choose Enter my own size…. Then you fill in the grid yourself.

Width

The width of a single label, from its left edge to its right edge. Measure the label itself, not the space around it.

Height

The height of a single label, top to bottom. Measure the label itself, not the space around it.

Columns

How many labels sit side by side, so the number of columns on the sheet.

Rows

How many labels sit below each other, so the number of rows on the sheet.

Left margin

From the left edge of the paper to the left edge of the first label.

Top margin

From the top edge of the paper to the top edge of the first label.

Pitch \u2192

From the left edge of one label to the left edge of the one beside it. That is the label width plus the gap; if they touch, it equals the width.

Pitch \u2193

From the top edge of one label to the top edge of the one below it. That is the label height plus the gap; if they touch, it equals the height.

If the grid is wrong, the tool warns you: This grid does not fit on Letter, or the labels overlap. Check the sizes and spacing.

What a label says

If a piece belongs to a cabinet, the cabinet letter is shown large in a box on the left of the label, and small again at the bottom right. That way you sort the pieces per cabinet after cutting. At the bottom is the code of the piece, for example P1-S5-7: panel 1, saw cut 5 (the cut in the cutting sequence that frees the piece), part 7. If you cut several of the same, it says which one it is (1/2, 2/2). The first label explains the code with a piece from your own project. If you pick Intermediate pieces or Both at the top, every piece that is cut further after a cut also gets a label, for example P1-S3 (1): the piece left of or above cut 3, with (2) for right or below, as the drawing was shown when you printed. Below it, it says where it comes from. If the panels were rotated (Rotate sheets 90°), the label says Intermediate piece · 90° at the top and the legend names the position: then rotate the drawing too, or you will see the other number for some pieces. On a phone you cannot rotate the drawing, so if you follow along on a phone, preferably print the labels without rotating. To see where that piece is on the panel, use Intermediate pieces in the cutting diagram.

Labels are normally ordered per panel in the cutting order. Set the cut list to By size and the labels of the parts follow the same order: grouped by width and length, narrowest and shortest first. That way you stick one size as a block and do not search across all sheets. The first label of each new size gets a thick border around the text, so you see on the sheet where another size starts. The dialog then says By size: grouped by width and length, like the cut list By size. The first label of each new size has a thick border. At the top of the dialog you choose yourself between Cutting order and By size; when it opens, that choice follows the cut list. The counter (1/2) and the code stay the same as in the cutting order. Intermediate pieces stay in front, in the cutting order.

On Cut-out sheet you choose with Label size between Full and Compact: full also adds the finished size and a small drawing with banding and grain, compact leaves those out and puts three labels side by side instead of two. On a label sheet or roll the size of the label decides what fits; the cabinet letter, the size, the code and the count are always on it. With Code only you get small labels with only the cabinet letter, the code and the size on all three kinds of paper, handy for a narrow roll. At the top you choose what to print: Parts (the pieces that go into the cabinet), Intermediate pieces (every piece that still needs cutting after a cut, such as P1-S2 (2), from P1-S1 (1)) or Both. The number after each choice is the number of labels. You only see this choice when your project has intermediate pieces. With Both all intermediate pieces come first and then all parts, each block per sheet in cutting order; on the cut-out sheet each block has a heading, on a sheet or roll they continue without empty labels. That way you stick them on in the order the pieces come off the saw.

The large size is the Cut size: what you cut. If edge banding still goes on, the Final size is shown below it, if there is room. See Sizes and units.

If a side has edge banding, you see it: Banding: with the sides behind it, and · * = banding already applied So while banding you know which edge to do.

If a piece comes from your offcut stock, it says (from offcut stock). If a piece fits nowhere, it gets Not yet planned (does not fit on a sheet)

Practical

Next to the print button it says what you are about to print: Labels: 2 and, as soon as you pick a label sheet, Sheets: 2 as well. The first number is the real number of pieces, so it includes the quantities from your list; the second says how many sheets to load in the printer.

With Start at label you begin at a label other than the first. Handy when you already used half a sheet: with 9, the app skips the first 8. In the preview those spots are hatched grey; on paper they stay blank. The app remembers per sheet type where your last print ended and sets the field there next time. Starting a new sheet? Set it to 1.

Lost or damaged a label? Choose Choose single labels. A list appears with every label per sheet, within what you picked at the top, with code, cabinet letter, name and size. Tick what you want to reprint, or search by code or name; Select all and Select none act on what the list shows, and the tick box next to a sheet picks all of its labels. A selection gets no explanation label. All labels in that list takes you back to everything.

Outlines only (test print) prints only the outlines, so you can check on plain paper whether the grid is right before running an expensive label sheet through the printer.

There is also a label set for your offcut stock, with the code shown in the app. See Offcut stock.