Industrial News

The new calculators, in Metric and English include:
* Stair Plan Creator
Enter dimensions for total rise and select preferences for rise, run, width, thickness etc and the calculator instantly draws the stair plan, including headroom and all relevant measurements needed for construction. Combinations of rise-run are displayed, and the user can easily add or subtract rises to re-draw the plan.

* Hip Roof Plan Creator
Building length and width, lumber dimensions, spacings etc are entered to instantly draw full hip roof plans, including rafter and hip cuts.

* Dovetail Joint Template Generator
Wood dimensions, tail number and width etc are entered to instantly draw printable templates for both through and double twisted dovetails. Selecting various tail and spacing combinations redraws the templates instantly. The finished template is printed, then folded over the end of the wood, and either cut through, or used to mark the piece.

Blocklayer.com has grown steadily since its inception in 2000, adding more and more calculators, estimators, planners and unique construction systems, becoming popular on most leading woodwork forum sites. The addition of online visual, printable plan calculators has greatly simplified planning and construction of projects for both novices and professionals.

Our site is dedicated to simplifying complex construction problems and calculations. Free to all users, Blocklayer.com is unique in its revolutionary new construction techniques, greatly simplifying construction of projects previously impractical and / or too expensive to build, such as curved, raking angled concrete masonry walls, with non square openings.

The sites’ online calculators are unique in their ability to not only calculate dimensions, but to actually draw printable plans for the project, including these dimensions, at no cost.