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The sheet that goes on the wall.
A cut list is only useful where the saw is, and there is no screen where the saw is. So the plan prints.
What is on it
- Every bar, drawn to scale. Not a table of numbers, but the actual bar, with the pieces in the order they come off it.
- Every cut dimensioned. A dimension line under each piece, so you can read the plan the way you read a drawing.
- The offcut, measured. The number that decides whether the tail goes back on the rack or in the skip. Most cut lists never tell you this.
- The shopping list. What to buy, how many, and what it costs if you gave us prices.
- Tick boxes. One per bar. Cross them off as you cut and you cannot lose your place.
Why print at all?
Because the shop floor is not the office. Hands are dirty, the phone is in a pocket, and the one thing that reliably survives an afternoon next to a drop saw is a piece of paper with a magnet on it.
A printed plan is also a plan that cannot change under you. Nobody re-solves it, nobody's session times out, and the piece you cut at four o'clock is the piece the plan said to cut at nine.
How to get one
- Put your stock and your cuts into the calculator.
- Press Make the cut list.
- Press Print / PDF.
No account, no watermark, no email address. There is also a CSV if you would rather have it in a spreadsheet, and a Share link if you want to send the whole job to somebody: the link carries the cut list itself, so nothing of yours is stored on a server anywhere.
Cut list template
People look for a cut list template, and what they usually want is a printable sheet with the right columns on it. That is what this produces, except the columns are filled in, the nesting is done, and the arithmetic is right. A blank template still leaves you the hard part.
If you do want to start from a spreadsheet, you can: paste one straight in.
The plans are worked out by LinearCutting, and the PDF says so. Why →