Some things you buy aren't used one at a time. A roll of filament, a bottle of resin or a spool of wire is used up a bit at a time. IAPZ keeps these materials in grams, millilitres or metres, and shows how much is left in each one you've opened.
Setting up a material
On the item's form, tick Keep count of its stock, then Used up from rolls or containers, and fill in:
- Measured in: grams, millilitres or metres.
- One is called: a roll, spool, bottle, bag, can or container.
- A full one holds: for example 1,000 g.
- An empty one weighs (grams only, optional): the empty spool's weight, so you can weigh a roll to find what's left.
The item's price and cost are for a whole sealed one, as you buy and sell it. You can also give it a colour, shown beside its name, to tell rolls apart.
Sealed and open
- Sealed ones are the item's stock, counted like any other item. You buy them on purchase orders, receive them, sell them, move them and count them as usual. The Stock tab and Count are for sealed ones only.
- Open ones are on the item's Containers tab. When you start one, choose Open a roll (or bottle, and so on). It gets its own number, like C-0042, and starts full. Print its label and stick it on.
At the top of the item, the total shows in its unit, for example 2,620 g · 2 sealed, 1 open. The low-stock level counts sealed ones, so you're told in time to order more.
What's left in each one
Each open one has a gauge with its percentage and amount, such as 62% · 620 g. It turns amber at 25% or less and red at 10% or less. Open one to:
- Weigh it: put it on the scale as it is, spool and all. The empty weight is taken off.
- Set what's left by hand.
- Move it to another location.
- Record that it was Dried, with the temperature and hours if you like.
- Mark empty when it's used up. Emptied ones are listed on their own; set what's left again if it was marked empty by mistake.
- Put back sealed, if it was opened by mistake and nothing else has been done to it.
Every change is kept in its History, with who made it.
What open ones are worth counts in the stock's value: their share of what a whole one cost.