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Mirror cutting optimiser: mirrors laid out on the sheet
What it does and how it is worked out
Lay out a mirror order on the sheet, free and in your browser. The list below is an example, three bathroom mirrors of 1000 × 800, two wardrobe door mirrors of 600 × 1600 and four small ones of 500 × 700 mm, so you see a result straight away: 1 DLF sheet of 3210 × 2250 and 79.2 % yield. Clear it and put in your own sizes.
Free, no sign-up, no email. Everything you type stays in this browser — your cutting list never reaches us.
Mirror is bought on sheets of its own and cut like glass, scored and snapped edge to edge: the same strips, the same trim and the same offcuts, kept apart from clear glass.
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The plan is the shop-floor version of this: every piece labelled on the diagram, the cuts in the order the table makes them, and each offcut with its real size for the rack. It stays in your browser like everything else here.
Working out the cut is free and stays free. Pro holds 400 offcuts on the rack instead of 25, prints a label for every pane and keeps your saved jobs, for €29 once. What Pro adds →
What the software does in a glass shop
More than the nesting. What a workshop needs around a cutting list is here too, and none of it leaves this browser:
- Each pane carries its own data. A reference, a shape (rectangle, circle or triangle) and the glass it is cut from; a list pasted from a spreadsheet keeps them, and the plan groups the panes by glass.
- A rack of offcuts that knows where they are. Each offcut can have its place in the shop and a photo, and the next job is cut from the rack first.
- The plan and the labels for the table. The cutting plan can carry your logo, and every pane can get a label with a QR code.
- A log of what was cut. Today's jobs stay listed, to print the plan or the labels again.
To see it on a real order, open the example job. With Pro the rack holds 400 offcuts instead of 25 and every pane gets a label.
The example of this page, worked out
The list the page opens with is an example of a mirror order, not a customer's order: 3 × 1000 × 800, 2 × 600 × 1600, 4 × 500 × 700 mm (quantity × width × height), on DLF sheets of 3210 × 2250 mm with 10 mm edge trim a side and 4 mm breakout, panes allowed to turn. The figures are the optimiser's own, worked out by the same code as the tool above.
| What the optimiser answers | Figure |
|---|---|
| Sheets to buy | 1 |
| Panes | 9 |
| Yield | 79.2 % |
| Offcuts back on the rack (4) | 1.07 m² |
| Scrap | 0.43 m² (6.0 %) |
What to watch with mirrors
- Cut on the glass face. Mirror is scored on the glass, never on the coated back.
- Its own sheet and its own rack. Set the sheet size and the price to the mirror you buy; on the rack each offcut keeps its glass, and a job is only cut from offcuts of the same glass.
- Your sheet, your table. Change the sheet to the one you buy and the trim and breakout to your cutting table's: the plan is worked out again as you type.
Workshop templates for mirrors
Example sizes, not a standard: load one into the list above, then change each size to the opening you measured. Loading one replaces the list; nothing is sent and no email is asked for.
| Template | Qty × width × height, mm | Sheets | Yield | |
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| Bathroom mirrors for ten flats | 10 × 1000 × 800 | 2 | 55.4 % | Load |
| A gym wall, mirrors 2 m high | 6 × 1000 × 2000 | 2 | 83.1 % | Load |
| Wardrobe door mirrors | 4 × 600 × 1900 | 1 | 63.1 % | Load |
Sheets and yield on a DLF sheet of 3210 × 2250 with an empty rack, as the optimiser works them out. Every job worked through in full: three orders worked out.
Questions people ask
- How many glass sheets does this mirror order take?
- The example on this page, 3 × 1000 × 800, 2 × 600 × 1600, 4 × 500 × 700 mm (quantity × width × height), fits on 1 DLF sheet of 3210 × 2250 mm with 10 mm edge trim and 4 mm breakout, at 79.2 % yield, and 4 offcuts go back on the rack. Put in your own sizes and the page works out yours.
- Which side is a mirror cut on?
- On the glass face, never on the coated back.