charming
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- Feb 4, 2009
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I am just finishing completing 5 fake double mat, multiple opening framing jobs for a movie that involved calculating all the dimensions for platinum records plus plaques plus cd covers, etc.
I think I must have spent 2 hours doing the calculations for all the dimensions (3-5/16 + 7/8 + 12-7/8) and on and on and on.
Then I turned it over to the LJ finishing department to cut on the computerized mat cutter. My dimensions were all correct but surely there is a better way (and No! I am not going to buy a computerized mat cutter)
So I'm wondering if anyone uses a graphics program to do these layouts and calculations? CAD, Corel, Microsoft Visio....?
I think I must have spent 2 hours doing the calculations for all the dimensions (3-5/16 + 7/8 + 12-7/8) and on and on and on.
Then I turned it over to the LJ finishing department to cut on the computerized mat cutter. My dimensions were all correct but surely there is a better way (and No! I am not going to buy a computerized mat cutter)
So I'm wondering if anyone uses a graphics program to do these layouts and calculations? CAD, Corel, Microsoft Visio....?