Lay EPS insulation and cut out openings
Measure the insulation as an area, and take away the bits that are not to be there.
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Draw the area the insulation lies on
Pick Area (“Yta”) and click round the slab, or Fill area (“Fyll yta”) and click inside a closed outline to have it found for you.
Worth knowing. The scale has to be set before Area (“Yta”) and Fill area (“Fyll yta”) can be used.
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Pick EPS insulation (“Cellplast”) in the panel
With the area selected you pick EPS insulation (“Cellplast”) in the panel on the right. The fields then change to material, grade and thickness instead of depth in metres.
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Fill in grade and thickness
Pick the material, the grade and Thickness (“Tjocklek”). The quantity is counted as square metres of that particular product, not as a volume — that is how EPS insulation is ordered.
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Press Cut out (“Skär ut”) to take a piece away
Find an opening in the slab — a lift shaft, a stairwell — and you click Cut out (“Skär ut”) on the row of the area in Drawn and measured (“Ritat och mätt”). Then drag a box over the opening.
Worth knowing. The tool stays put after each box, so several holes are taken out of the same area without you picking it again. Press Done (“Klar”) when you have finished.
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Check that the area went down
The row in Drawn and measured (“Ritat och mätt”) shows how many cut-outs the area has, and the square metres are recalculated straight away. If the figure does not get smaller, the box landed outside the area.
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Do not lay two cut-outs over each other
Overlapping cut-outs take the same area away twice, so the quantity comes out too low. A cut-out that overlaps another is therefore stopped before it is laid.
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Undo a cut-out
Ctrl+Z removes the last one, and on the row of the area there is the button that puts the last cut-out back.
Next steps
- Measure areas, angles and countsThe rest of the measuring tools: area and volume, distance, angle, arc, count and symbol search.7 min
- Drainage drawing or foundation drawing?Say what the drawing shows, so you get the right tools and the right materials.2 min
- Draw reinforcement (straight bar)Click out the run the bars follow and get metres of reinforcement per size.5 min
Do the steps on a real drawing
Open the tool and follow the walkthrough on the sample drawing that is already there. No login needed.
Open the toolStuck on a step? Get in touch — we are happy to take a look at your drawing.