What’s so wonderful about the LumberOptimizer?
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Why you need the LumberOptimizer?

  • LO performs both design and inventory in a single calculation
    • Design: Guides you along the design process so you can select a solution with a suitable tradeoff between load bearing capability (which one wishes to maximize) and the length of the diagonal (which one wishes to minimize)
    • Inventory: Tells you how many diagonals you can harvest from a specific length of lumber
  • By using the entire length of the lumber, LO enables you to extract the maximum value from the lumber
    • Optimization: At the end of your cuts you should find that each diagonal harvested from the lumber has the same dimensions and the entire length of the lumber has been consumed!
    • Crazy Clever Calculation: precisely accounts for the subtraction of the useable lumber length due to the width of the blade and the angle the diagonal support makes with the wall
  • No need for expensive cutting tools utilizing an angle specification Red Neck Friendly: While our calculations facilitate the use of such expensive tools, we also enable one to work only with distances—no angles—in order to achieve accurate cutlines. Often the latter approach achieves more accurate results.