wood sizes

[RogerS]

I'm helping out a guy in the US who has developed quite a neat drawing/design package for the Mac. http://www.gizmolab.com/software/ if you are interested. He has a library of American lumber and I rashly (!) offered to provide him with a list of UK metric timber sizes.

I've looked on the web but can't find anything. I know that 50x50 PAR comes out at nearer 45x45 but short of going down to the timber merchants and measuring them all...... does anyone know of such a list?

 

[Anonymous]

SL hardwoods has tables of the standard dimensions on their site. Check PAR boards, any specie.
EG: http://www.slhardwoods.co.uk/looseboards_timber.asp

 

[RogerS]

Thanks Brian. I tried the link but got an error. Am i correct in assuming that this table is for boards...ie.not 50x50mm PAR timber?

 

[Anonymous]

The SL Harwoods site lists boards from 22mm to 150mm thick and 22mm to several hundredd mm wide. I had a problem with the link too. Go to their main page and look up boards. That should work.

 

[RogerS]

This site gives the nominal sizes. As you know 50x50 PAR actually comes out at nearer 45x45 and from a drawing package perspective it's these figures that I'm after unfortunately.