Cut list optimiser
Enter your parts, pick a board, and see how few sheets they fit on — laid out with straight cuts a panel saw can follow. Download the layout as a DXF for a CNC, or the list for a cut-to-size workshop. Free, no account.
| Part | Length | Width | Qty | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Millimetres. Length runs with the grain.
1 sheet
10 parts on 2800×2070mm Premium White · 43% of the board used
Sheet 1 of 1
Rather not type the parts list?
Design the whole piece instead — a bookcase, wardrobe, kitchen unit or bench, sized to the millimetre in 3D. The designer works out every part, bands the edges that show, adds the grooves and drilling, prices it, and nests it with this same optimiser.
Open the designerQuestions
- How are the parts laid out?
- Every sheet is divided by straight, edge-to-edge cuts — the kind a panel saw can follow — and several packing strategies are tried, keeping the one that uses the fewest sheets. Parts are spaced 30mm apart for the saw kerf and some slack, with 20mm left clear along every sheet edge.
- Does it respect the grain?
- Yes. On a woodgrain decor a part keeps its length along the length of the sheet, so the grain runs the way you drew it. On a plain board, MDF or birch plywood a part may be turned a quarter if that saves a sheet.
- What do I get?
- A drawing of every sheet, a DXF of the same layout for a CNC router, and the parts list as XLSX or CSV in the column layout panel workshops import. No account and no payment.
- What does it not do?
- It nests rectangles from one board at a time, with no edge banding or machining. To get those — grooves, hinge holes, shelf-pin drilling, banded front edges — design the whole piece in the Sizewood designer, which generates the parts for you.