Program For Laying Out Cuts On A Sheet Of Plywood

The macxcut program does an amazingly good job of minimizing waste.

Program for laying out cuts on a sheet of plywood.

This calculator attempts to generate the most efficient cut list for a given set of pieces. Optimization uses the guillotine cutting method when all cuts are done from one side of a panel completely to another side. Every sheet of material you save is money in your pocket time after time. I use the cutlist plugin to export the parts to csv file which can then be imported into maxcut.

Cut width enter how. I use a program called maxcut to perform the layout. It s based on linear board feet and so works only in the one dimension. I may expand it to handle plywood at some point in the future but don t count on it.

Check out the cutlist sheet stock maximizer 2 solving the cutting stock problem the cutting stock problem requires that we find the best cheapest way to cut one dimensional stock pieces pipe dimensional lumber wire rolls of paper or other sheet material to be slit etc in such a way that a given number of pieces of. Just tell the program what size parts you need to cut. Try out cutlist workbench and let me know what you think. It will do the heavy lifting to figure out the best use of the available materials.