STABILA House build | Episode 8 | Trimwork and Millwork with our TECH 700 DA

Watch now the full 8th Episode of "STABILA House Build" on RUclips. Trimwork and Millwork with our TECH 700 DA - Digital Electronic Angle Finder and LD 250BT - 165ft Bluetooth® Laser Distance Measurer

[@Miiike604]

Good framing.

[@paulcritchley464]

Nice video
But internal corners or scribed be so it doesn’t matter what the degrees are
External that’s is different
Cheers

[@michael.schuler]

The total measured angle at the outside corner at 3:30 in the video is 89.8. This means that the angle is slightly more acute than a 90. When you push the half button on Tech 700 DA, this measured angle is simply divided in two, so the tool reads 44.9 degrees. But the way N. American miter saw scales are set up, 44.9 is NOT the correct angle that your saw will read when set to cut this miter correctly. The correct reading on the saw will be 45.1 degrees, which will produce the correct slightly acute angle. The correct saw setting is not equal to the measured angle divided by two. It is the complement of that number. I don't know why this tool (and some other manufacturers' miter devices, as well) are not set up to indicate the correct miter saw reading directly. Does anyone know the reason? IMO, programming the layout tool to yield the saw setting would be more practical.

[@STABILAOfficial]

Thanks for your feedback

[@michael.schuler]

@@STABILAOfficial Hello, from a long time Stabila fan. I asked my question out of sincere curiosity, not simply as a criticism, and with the presumption that there must be a practical reason why Stabila programs Tech 700 DA to simply bisect the angle, rather than to go one step further and compute the complement. As a finish carpenter by trade, it is almost always the complement that I need to know in order to set my saw or machinery correctly, since a 90 degree cut is marked as "0" on most machines. Can you possibly explain the reason?
In any case, as a suggestion for future development, perhaps an additional function could be added to the current programming: In addition to Measured Angle and Bisected Angle, this extra function could be labeled as "Miter Complement" or "Miter Saw Setting" or "Machine Miter Setting."
Of course, one is able to perform this simple calculation in one's head. But when moving quickly on the job and dealing with odd and precise measured angles, I know that I, for one, would use such a setting much more often than the current bisected angle function, if not exclusively. For me (and I doubt that I am the only one), it would save time and eliminate the possibility of an inadvertent costly error. And after all, jumping directly and with certainty to the most accurate and useful measurements is what Stabila is all about, nicht?