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Now let me show you how to do dimensional math and conversions on your
Construction Master Pro.
Keep in mind
the keystrokes are exactly the same if you're using our trig model or our desktop model.
Both give you fast, accurate solutions for all your dimensional math and conversion needs.
Pretty much, you put in dimensions the way you say them. You put in the number and
then label it.
[1][2][Feet][7][Inch]
and any fractions down to 64ths of an inch. Just the way you write it - 7/8.
I see there I've hit an extra "8", with this back arrow key you can
back digits out one at
a time. So let's go back and say 7/16 just for fun.
You're not locked into the feet-inch-fraction format. You can mix formats together, for
instance, plus
32.25 inches plus
36.2 feet
minus 3 yards, plus 2
meters just mix it up.
Hit the equal key. It's going to come back in the format we started with - which
was feet-inch-fractions. If you don't like that format you can convert
to feet -
49.0, back to feet-inch-fraction, inches and fractions, inches decimally,
yards, meters. You can even go to centimeters and millimeters (over the
[7] and [9] keys here). Let me go back to feet-inch-fractions.
So now you can add, subtract, multiply or divide these. Let's say we divide that by 3
for equal spacing, 16' 4 1/4", or multiply. Say that's one
side of the pad we want a pour. By 25' 7" -
there's our square footage, square area. If we want to see that in square
yards of material, maybe flooring material. I can see it in
square meters, square feet,
square inches,
centimeters and millimeters if you like. So there's our square footage. Now lets say
we're going to pour that 4 inches deep.
[x][4][Inch]
equals 5.16 cubic yards. We'll make the same conversions there - cubic feet or cubic
meters.
Another way to work in square footage and volume is to enter it directly.
If you already know the number you don't have to multiply it. Let's say 100 square
feet. You hit [Feet][Feet]. See, it now says square feet.
I can now start calculating with that, or if you press it one more time it goes to
cubic feet for cubic volume and you can convert that to yards or whatever else
you want to do with that.
So that's a quick overview on the dimensional math and conversion
functions. For more details you can download our user's guide at
www.calculated.com/support.