Settings

Save material

Save labour

Save money

Stock you can buy ?

Leave qty empty for unlimited supply.

Offcuts you already have ?

Free lengths on your rack. Used when they help; never counted as purchases.

Required parts ?

Tab past the last field to add a row. Enter jumps down a column. Alt+N adds a row, Alt+P opens paste, Ctrl+Enter calculates.

Read the full guide.

Previous plans

Six ways to cut

Buy the fewest bars, waste the least material, empty the offcut rack, spend the fewest dollars, spare the bloke on the saw, or cut a whole bundle in one setup. Same job, different answers. Which to pick.

Every plan double-checked

Before you see a plan, it's checked cut by cut: nothing missing, everything fits, blade width included.

Best possible plan

When you see the green tick, no plan on earth uses less stock for your cuts. See the jobs that prove it.

Cut list optimizer, by material

The same solver, set up for what you are actually cutting. Each page carries the stock lengths that material is sold in and the kerf that suits it.

Going deeper

Read what the 1D cutting stock problem is and how an exact solver beats a first-fit guess, see how the optimizer works, or check how it compares with the other cut list optimizers.