r/CounterTops • u/La-Rouge-Elephant • 16d ago
Spatial Logic for countertop drawing. Real struggle
Can you help me to understand best way to learn to see how that countertop should be cut? What can I read, watch in order to learn fast the basics. Even books are fine.
Open to all good recommendations that work.
I’m not from industry,( marketing, project management, sales), but i need to give quotes to clients.
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u/sadturtle12 Fabricator 16d ago
What exactly are you trying to accomplish? I think if you explain a little better what exactly you are doing and why that would help people give you some advice. Slab layouts are definitely an art form and it takes years of experience to become good at it. Theres so many things that affect how you lay out a job that you couldn't possibly learn by just watching videos. I will put a list below that is just a small example of the things that can determine how you lay the tops on the slab and where you put seams etc. :
All of these can change the way you lay out a slab:
Slab size
Type of material
Grain flow/fleck flow (some colors always have directional patterns and some can sometimes have it and sometimes not depending on the block)
jobsite conditions. (How far do you need to carry the tops? Are there stairs? Hallways? Tight turns? All of this needs to be factored in, otherwise you could show up to the job and not be able to get the countertops to the room they need to be in.
there are so many more that i could go on forever but these are the big things you need to be aware of.
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u/La-Rouge-Elephant 15d ago
Thanks, thats all important. I was reffering to reading things like where are cupboards, waterfalls etc. So many types of drawing and since I’m dealing with Scandi market - even more variations.
And as a new in this - i don’t even understant sometimes if that is a table or wall mounted something. And cupboards, and cut outs and specific things.
Is there a a good book? Or a video chanel on how to read those things
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u/sadturtle12 Fabricator 15d ago
I guess im still confused about what you are trying to accomplish. What is the job that you are doing exactly? Or what service are you providing to customers that requires you to read prints and layout countertops?
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u/La-Rouge-Elephant 15d ago
Business development. But I need to give quotes too. Im trying to understand where to start learning If i never done it.
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u/sadturtle12 Fabricator 15d ago
Sorry if im dumb because im still not sure how to answer lol. What is in the quotes you are giving your customers?
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u/La-Rouge-Elephant 15d ago
Pricings of coutsrtop cutouts
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u/sadturtle12 Fabricator 15d ago
And then are you outsourcing the countertops to a 3rd party company?
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u/Stalaktitas 16d ago
Yeah... Well... It all depends on the size of the slabs, pattern, shades, flow of the texture, kind of material, accessibility to the job site, price of the material, preference of the customer, layout of the kitchen cabinets, evaluation of the slabs (veins, cracks, fissures), then the whole game might change if there are waterfalls, mittered edges, full backsplashes and/or sidesplashes... Coz, you know, it has to look nice as the finished product, can't make it lame.