Before talking money, iFurn.pro shows the metreage. The «Project summary» tab has an «Edge banding» section — a table per order band: how much of it went into the project and on how many parts.
What is in the table
For each band (broken down by material) the columns show:
- Band — the tape name with its dimensions (width/thickness) and the processing letter, if any.
- Length, m — the geometric length of the edged sections.
- Calc. length, m — the billing length for the service (always no less than the geometric one; the formula is in a separate article).
- Sides — the sum of edged sides accounting for the part count and the product run.
- Parts — on how many parts this band occurs.
How the length is counted
For each side its length is taken: top and bottom are the part's length, left and right are the width. The length is converted to metres and multiplied by the part count and the product run. The sum across all sides and parts is the band's geometric length in the project.
Four sources of edging
The metreage includes more than the tape on straight edges. iFurn.pro adds up four sources:
- Straight edges of the Top / Bottom / Left / Right sides.
- Edge processing — tape on a chamfer, hand processing, cut, rounding.
- Grooves — the perimeter of the groove contour, if it is edged.
- Milling cuts — the cut path length, if it is edged.
Why look at it
The summary answers «how much tape the project actually needs» before sending the order. You see which band is the «longest», on how many parts it sits — and where the consumption can be reduced by changing the tape or removing surplus edging.
Bottom line
«Project summary» → «Edge banding» is the order's metre-level truth: the geometric and billing length of each band, the number of sides and parts, accounting for all four sources. The money is computed from the billing length (see the next articles).