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Glass cutting optimiser for shower screens
What it does and how it is worked out
Lay out the panes of a shower screen on the sheet, free and in your browser. The list below is an example, four panes 2000 mm high, 900, 800, 800 and 300 mm wide, so you see a result straight away: 1 DLF sheet of 3210 × 2250 and 77.5 % 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.
Toughened glass cannot be cut once it is toughened: every pane of a screen is cut to its final size, edged and drilled first, and only then toughened. So the list you nest here is the list of finished sizes.
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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 the panes of a shower screen, not a customer's order: 1 × 900 × 2000, 2 × 800 × 2000, 1 × 300 × 2000 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 |
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| Sheets to buy | 1 |
| Panes | 4 |
| Yield | 77.5 % |
| Offcuts back on the rack (2) | 1.49 m² |
| Scrap | 0.13 m² (1.8 %) |
What to watch with shower screens
- Cut before toughening. A toughened pane shatters if it is cut or drilled, so the sizes in the list are the finished ones, holes and notches already allowed for.
- Doors and fixed panels share strips. Panes of the same height can go side by side in one strip across the sheet: the drawing below shows how this example is laid out.
- 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 shower screens
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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| Front: a fixed panel and a sliding door | 1 × 700 × 1950, 1 × 730 × 1950 | 1 | 38.6 % | Load |
| Corner: two fixed panels and two doors | 2 × 450 × 1950, 2 × 470 × 1950 | 1 | 49.7 % | Load |
| Walk-in panel with a return | 1 × 1200 × 2000, 1 × 300 × 2000 | 1 | 41.5 % | 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 shower screen take?
- The example on this page, 1 × 900 × 2000, 2 × 800 × 2000, 1 × 300 × 2000 mm (quantity × width × height), fits on 1 DLF sheet of 3210 × 2250 mm with 10 mm edge trim and 4 mm breakout, at 77.5 % yield, and 2 offcuts go back on the rack. Put in your own sizes and the page works out yours.
- Can toughened shower glass be cut to size?
- No: toughened glass shatters if it is cut or drilled. The panes are cut to their final size, edged and drilled before toughening, which is why the cutting list holds the finished sizes.