Legs, aprons, door frames, battens, rails and aluminum wardrobe profiles — there is more linear stock in a piece of furniture than it seems. The optimizer nests every part across your stock lengths and trims the waste before the saw even starts.
Cutting chipboard or MDF sheets? Panel cutting optimizer →
▶ Open the calculatorEnter the stock lengths you have (solid wood, battens, profiles) and the part list from your cut sheet. The tool nests them with minimal waste and produces a piece-by-piece cutting plan — with each board's remnant that goes back on the shelf.
A 20×40 batten and a 30×60 apron are not cut from the same board. Tag the section or material in the “Name” column and run one calculation per section — so every plan matches a real stack of stock in the shop.
A saw blade takes 3–4 mm per cut, and with 20 parts from one board that's nearly a centimeter — exactly enough for the last part not to fit. The “Kerf” field accounts for it on every cut automatically.
Yes — in the “▦ 2D panels” mode (Hobby+): rectangular parts on chipboard, MDF or plywood boards, guillotine cuts only for a panel saw, grain per part, kerf and edge trim. You get a layout of every board with its usable offcuts and a numbered cut sequence; the Pro plan adds edge banding per edge with band metres per type. Irregular shapes are not supported; DXF/SVG export and a CNC mode come with Pro.
Any — the standard 2, 2.4, 3 and 4 m boards, but also anything else, including short leftovers from previous jobs that otherwise gather dust in the corner.
Yes — the base algorithms are free with no sign-up. The Pro plan unlocks the optimal algorithm and extra settings.