Where drywall sheets end: 18 joints off the studs in a sample house

Hung naively, a sample house's 8 ft drywall sheets end between studs 18 times. Snapping each cut to a stud costs 4 sheets and fixes all 18.

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wall-framing-takeoff counts drywall sheets for a framed house. A sheet's end joint should land on a stud, king or jack, not in the air between two. Until now the count ignored that. A new plan key, drywall.jointsOnStuds, cuts each sheet at the last framing centre it can reach.

On the sample house (a computed layout, not a real hang), counting end joints on walls:

SheetOff framing, naiveOff framing, snappedSheets, naive → snapped
8 ft18071 → 75
10 ft29056 → 58
12 ft4047 → 46

Eight-foot sheets are a multiple of the 16 in stud spacing, so they only miss when a run starts after a door or window. Ten-foot sheets miss more, since 120 in is 7.5 spacings. Snapping shortens some pieces, which can cost sheets or, with 12 ft, save one by packing offcuts better.

Limits: walls only (ceiling joists are not in the plan), hand-count tests, no real hang to check against, engine and CLI but no page control yet.

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