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Cutting optimizers

Cut a list from stock with the fewest sheets or bars: panels and plywood with the grain, glass with the offcuts already standing on your rack, and bars, tubes and profiles with the saw kerf. Each one prints the plan the workshop cuts from, and none of them asks you to sign up.

Same rules as everywhere here: the method on the page, nothing uploaded, all of it computed in your browser.

Panel cutting plan: one sheet drawn to scale with its parts, cuts and offcuts, from the optimizer's own example — The panel optimizer's own example: 34 cabinet parts from 3 sheets of 2440 × 1220, 90.1 % of the board used, every cut straight and through. Open it with the example.

Sheets and panels

Parts on the fewest sheets of plywood, MDF or melamine, with the grain and the kerf, and the edge tape to order.

Panel cutting optimizerParts on the fewest sheets of plywood, MDF or melamine, with kerf, trim and grain direction, as guillotine layouts a panel saw can cut. 34 cabinet parts on 2440 × 1220 in 3 sheets, the area minimum.

Edge banding calculatorMetres of edge tape for a cut list from the banded long and short edges of each part, with the overhang allowance and the rolls to order.

Glass

A nest with real guillotine cuts and breakout, cut from your rack before a new sheet, then the plan and a label for every pane.

Cutting optimiserNests your cutting list the way a table actually cuts — strips, guillotine snaps, edge trim and breakout width. Then it does what the free panel nesters get wrong: separates the scrap you bin from the offcut that goes back on the rack.Example 40 units on 4 sheets → 4.1 % scrap, 3.61 m² back on the rack

Offcut inventoryThe rack against your wall is glass you have already paid for. List it, and the optimiser cuts the next order out of it before it buys a sheet — but only opens a piece when doing so removes a whole sheet from the order, so good stock is not fragmented for nothing.Example on one 40-piece job: 4 sheets down to 2, 398 € not spent

Cutting planThe shop-floor half of the optimiser. Every piece labelled on the diagram, the cuts listed in the order the table makes them with the measurement for each one, and each offcut with its real size so it goes back on the rack under a number instead of into the bin.Example prints on A4, one page per sheet — no account, nothing uploaded

Cutting labelsThe job every shop does with a marker pen while the panes are still on the table. One label per pane, straight out of the solved nest and in the order the table cuts them: the same piece code as the plan, the size, the glass, which sheet it came off, and whether it was rotated.Example plain A4 or 70 × 37 mm label sheets — 24 to a page, exact

Bars and profiles

Lengths from stock bars, tubes, battens or profiles with the fewest bars, the saw kerf and the end trim.

Linear cutting optimizerA cut list against the bars you buy: the fewest bars, the saw kerf and end trim counted, offcuts on the rack used first, and the ones worth keeping marked. 54 pieces from 6 m bars in 10, the theoretical minimum.

Which one to use

Rectangles from sheets go to the panel optimizer, unless the sheets are glass: glass breaks along a score, needs an edge trim and is cut on a table, which is why it has its own, with the offcut rack. Lengths from bars go to the linear optimizer, which works the same for aluminium profiles, steel tube and timber battens.

All three solve the same question, the fewest stock pieces for a list, and all three are free without limits. The labels, the 400-offcut rack and the job library are the parts that come with Pro.