Section Reports

Several additional report options are available that allow for the ability to create individual metal cutting list reports per roof plane.
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The standard Sheet Cutting List Summary is created looking at the entire roof and putting short panels together to meet the Min Length setting when turned on in your panel allowances.
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However, the Section Report is an entirely separate process and looks at each roof plane individually, and puts short panels together to meet the Min Length setting one roof plane at a time.
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So one cutting list may not be the same as the other, because the short panels are not nested in the same way or at the same time.
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You cannot mix and match them – they are two distinctly separate outputs and most times, will not parallel each other and may indeed cause confusion for you and your customers.
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The positive aspect of this is that, in general, the total length of coil for the job stays the same, regardless of the method used to generate the cutting list output – except when a single 10” piece becomes a single 4’1’ piece for example (if your min length is set to 4’1″) which does add a few extra inches or millimetres to the panel lengths for Section Report because it is not aggregated over the whole roof, but one roof plane at a time.
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To prepare for a “Section Report” as we have named them, the user must define various areas of the roof as sections (typically “A”, “B” etc.) and then number individual roof planes within each section using the Set-Section function under Estimate > Set-Panels.

You use the Set-Sequence button to change the order of the plane areas to suit your method of working – typically from longest roof panels to shortest.
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Once this is complete, a Section Report can be produced by simply utilising the ###SectionReport, ###SectionReport2 or ###SectionReport3 key text strings in your report template which will result in a report similar to that shown below with the plane area and the cutting list for that plane.
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###SectionReport provides a layout of each roof plane in turn, and includes waste and plane area in the corresponding cutting list table for each plane area of the model.
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###SectionReport2 provides a cutting list table for each plane area of the model and includes waste and plane area, without the graphical depiction of the roof plane area.
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Removes the plane annotation numbers from plane imagery, as well as using double columns, losing Waste and Total Area per panel in the process over ###SectionReport.
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Below is a closer look at the two column format of the SectionReport3.
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Typically associated with the full blown commercial mode reports are the Flashing Table which includes the angle of bend for each piece of trim.
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The angle of bend is calculated automatically by the software from the roof geometry.
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It uses the pitch of the roof and the angle made between adjacent roof planes.
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New “section-style” tables have been created for users who want an abridged version of the current report table capability, but with a focus on ensuring all information is contained for manufacturing purposes.
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The two new key text strings are ###SectionStyleTable and ###WallSectionStyleTable and output panel cutting lists for metal panels on both roof and wall estimations.
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Available for commercial roofing to display bend angle of flashing, the number of pieces of each length and the product code:
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Available for commercial roofing to display accessories and fasteners associated with all the trim and panels in that job:
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Displays any Extra items selected for the current estimate.
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