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The window’s exterior dimension, often referred to as the “flange dimension,” represents the outermost edge of the window frame once it is installed. This includes the mounting flange and helps understand total coverage and ensure compatibility with trim or siding.

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The Motion Window’s Radius Measurement Tool is specifically designed to assist you in accurately determining the radius corner measurement required for all windows with rounded corners. Here are a couple of essential things to know:

1. 1. What is a radius? It’s the distance from the center of a circle to its edge. For instance, a 3” radius is half the width of a 6” circle, and a 2-1/2” radius is half the width of a 5” circle.
    
2. 2. This dimension is not required for a quotation, but we cannot proceed to an order without it.
    
3. 3. This tool is specifically designed for measuring the corner of the HOLE-CUT OPENING. Do NOT measure any part of the window’s frame, glass, or interior trim ring for this measurement. For accurate results, the window’s interior trim ring must be removed. The Radius Measurement Tool is not designed to measure your existing window’s glass or frame.
    
4. 4. You may only need to confirm the corner radius of one of the windows in your vehicle. In most cases, you can be sure that all the other windows follow this measurement. Please consider measuring the radius corners of any windows that may look or function differently from the other windows in the vehicle. In some cases, a window in a door or an egress window may be of a slightly different construction and can be an odd measurement.
    
5. 5. To use the tool, place it into the corner of the opening. While some corners may be rougher cut than others, and the opening lines may not be perfectly cut, one side of the tool or the other should closely represent your corner. This tool is specifically designed to measure the corner of the hole-cut opening.
    
6. 6. On rare occasions, neither side of the tool will accurately measure the opening. Please send us a pattern if you are unsure of this measurement or believe you may have an alternative radius cut in your hole opening. We can then CAD draw your hole opening and discuss your replacement options.
    

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Above is what you’ll find at the beginning of an imperial tape measure. Each inch is broken down into sixteen segments. In order to read and understand an imperial tape measure, you will need to have a basic understanding of fractions.

Although every segment is 1/16th of an inch, you don’t read the halfway point as 8/16ths, because you can ‘simplify’ that fraction. If both numbers can be divided by one number then thats what you do in order to simplify. Both 8 and 16 can be divided by 8, so 8/16 is also 1/2 inch.
Here is each increment of one inch, simplified;
1/16
2/16 = 1/8
3/16
4/16 = 2/8 = 1/4
5/16
6/16 = 3/8
7/16
8/16 = 4/8 = 2/4 = 1/2
9/16
10/16 = 5/8
11/16
12/16 = 6/8 = 3/4
13/16
14/16 = 7/8
15/16
16/16 = 1
It’s confusing at first but becomes second nature after a short while. It does get a little more complicated if you have to add two measurements together. This is fairly straight forward if the bottom numbers of the fraction are the same,
1/4 + 1/4 = 2/4 or 1/2
And
2/4 + 3/4 = 5/4 or 1 and a 1/4
If the bottom numbers are different then it takes a little more work;
1/16 + 1/8
Here, you need to make the numbers under the lines the same. Change 1/8 back to 2/16 so they can be added together;
1/16 + 2/16 = 3/16
Another example;
3/8 + 15/16
Change 3/8 to 6/16 to make it work
6/16 + 15/16 = 21/16 0r 1 and 5/16

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