How do you get tape readings into a construction calculator?
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Feet-inch-fraction math is where a block or footing count goes wrong, and it usually goes wrong at the keypad. Reading 7 5/8 off a blade, saying it out loud and thumbing it into a calculator is three chances to drop a fraction. The T1 Tomahawk sends each reading straight into the app's fractional keypad, so course heights, wall lengths and openings arrive as entered values rather than transcribed ones. The count, the waste factor and the order come off numbers that were measured, not remembered.
How the readings reach the calculator
- T1 readings land in a fractional keypad
- Feet, inches and fractions kept intact
- T1 Tomahawk sends it, you do not type it
- Course heights and openings entered once
- Block counts come off measured numbers
The video works in a block yard: the T1 measures a CMU unit and a wall, the readings appear in a phone keypad that takes feet, inches and fractions the way a construction calculator does, and those feed a wall estimate. That path is the point of the clip. The arithmetic was never the hard part; getting the right numbers into it without a pencil stop is.
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