Travis, all I do is remodels, with sticks. I cut  2" x 6"'s down to 4" (standard backsplash height). Cut them into 24" lengths, and template on top of them.  No down time for the customer.

Dennis,

I don't think over 1000 LT-55 owners are wasting their time, the thing is extremely accurate, maybe your unit had been dropped and needed to be calibrated (which can be done for free by contacting us). All of the situations that you spoke of are easily shot with the LT-55 it justs takes a little bit of thought ;after using it everyday for a couple of weeks you don't even have to think about special situations anymore they just come second nature. The LT-55 can easily do raised bars, check out the video of Drew shooting a kitchen on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcf-3nEQ4Dg you should be able to see his video of adding a raised bar in a matter of minutes, very fast very accurate.

99.9% of our issues are due to lack of training, did you ever have someone from Laser Products train you either in person or on the phone?

If your worried about being able to confirm the measurements there is a "view dimensions" feature on the 1.58 software that displays all the dimensions for varification.

Please come to our booth at one of the shows and challenge us, I gaurantee we will meet your challenge, arcs, circles, raised bars, etc. It won't be long before the majority of stone shops only accept digital, the major quartz MFGs have already started in most markets.

Check out the pictures of the doctors office that they are using for the Digital shoot-out a couple of days before Coverings in Orlando, you can see them on the Stone advice site listed under the digital shoot-out thread. The office is full of weird angles, radius tops, arc tops, raised bars, blind corners, etc. We are looking forward to shooting that office, as a matter of fact, Drew is going to video tape the event and post it for all to see.

If you can get your hands on the LT-55 again, give one of us a call and we can walk you thru how to use it easily, or you can visit us at any of the shows and we will train you there.

Thanks

They plan on enlarging the existing stand and putting it in place of the pda, the case interior is also getting a redesign to acommodate the tablet.

  We have an old timer that does our templating, been using cardboard for the 12 years he's been here.  I could not get him to switch over, so I offered him a challenge.  This was in place of telling him or giving him the ultimate ultimatum.  I could template a condo building faster than he could minus the time to digitize the cardboard templates.  Same buildings, 10 units each 50 square foot kitchens, w/ raised bar tops, master bath and hall bath. Got to the job site about 10:30, I got all mine done with the laser went and had lunch around noon, then went back and finished up the his last 4 units.  He has never touched cardboard since.

If you add up the savings on that project for us it would look like this.  45 minutes for hard template, 30-45 minutes to digitize times 80 units.  Saved around 120 man hours at (15 per hour x 2.5 (burden)) = $4500 saved.  about 1/3 the cost of the unit.

the time savings are huge. no comparison.  if you use a CNC to cut with, digital is a no brainer.

John