Rectangle mark

A rectangle mark draws the outline of a rectangle on a face. It removes no material.

Rectangle mark. Drawn by the editor's own geometry code.

When to use it

Use it to show where a part bears on another, where to plane or fit by hand, or where a bracket or plate goes.

Fields

Field	Unit	Range or options	Default	What it changes
Position X	mm	from 0	1400	Where the corner the rectangle grows from lies along the part.
Corner across the face	mm	from 0	30	Across the face from the side's own edge, to the corner the rectangle grows from.
Face		Top, Bottom, Front, Back	Front	The side of the part the processing is on.
Length	mm	from 1	200	The side along the part, before any turn.
Width	mm	from 1	60	The side across the face.
Angle	°	-180 to 180	Not turned	Turns the rectangle in the face about that corner, counter-clockwise seen from outside.

Default: what Add fills in on a 3000 mm part of 120 x 120 mm.

Add a rectangle mark

1. Select the part in the Parts list.
2. Under Extra processings, click Add.
3. Type rectangle in the search field and pick Rectangle mark.
4. Set Face, then Position X and Corner across the face for its corner.
5. Set Length and Width, and an Angle to turn it in the face.
6. Check that the part shows a green check. If not, open the Issues tab.

Note

A Hundegger K2 with a writing marker draws it, and the card labels it Specialised machine. BVN and BVX write it in the shop test pack only, until the shop has confirmed how the machine reads it. BTLx writes its four sides as lines, with a note to check the first part. BTL writes a rectangle square to the part; one turned in its face is listed for marking by hand.

Machine export

Format	Status	Details
BTLx	Partly supported	Its four sides, each a Marking limited to the side, with a warning: no file or machine has shown a limited marking yet. Read back as four lines.
BVN (Hundegger)	Partly supported	Experimental, included with a warning unless you leave them out: operation 0602, the rectangle a K2 draws with its writing marker, placed as operation 0305.
BVX2 (Hundegger)	Partly supported	Experimental, included with a warning unless you leave them out: a RectangleMarking, read from one public file.
BTL 10.6	Partly supported	060 quadrangle square to the part, its sides along and across P11 and P12. A turned rectangle is omitted with a loss.
Machine	Specialised machine	Drawn by a Hundegger K2 with a writing marker. Elsewhere the lines are scribed by hand. Which machine can cut it.

BTL status describes what the specification can represent. CAMBIUM imported our earlier BTL test files; confirmation applies to the tested forms and build. See BTL coverage for representation and receiver caveats.

Related pages

• Marking: Scribe a line across a face to mark a position for assembly. Angle and single or double style, with defaults and machine export.
• Text: Put text on the timber, such as the part number, so parts are easy to find on site. Fields, defaults and machine export.
• Draw a contour: Draw a free contour on a face with pen, curvature, rectangle and circle tools, or import it from an SVG file. Exact arcs, snapping and typed sizes.
• Parts editor: Edit parts in the Parts view: profile, length, end shapes and extra processings, with 2D and 3D drawings and a live validity check.
• The workspace: Find your way around Boomkikker: the menu bar, the project bar, the parts list, the viewports and the properties panel.
• Document a new processing: When the app gains a processing type, the docs build fails until it has a page. Add the page, its group and its export row.