CutPlanCutting plan: from your list to the workbench
Prepare a cut list, understand guillotine cuts and check the layout, sequence and PDF before cutting.
Prepare your list in millimeters
Choose short names describing each piece’s role. “Left side” is clearer in the workshop than “Piece 1”. Quantity counts identical instances, not list rows.
The side table has a 900 × 600 mm top, two 560 × 722 mm side legs and a 784 × 120 mm rear rail: four 18 mm MDF pieces. Set grain requirements before allowing rotation.
What a guillotine cut means
A guillotine separation crosses the whole current rectangular region from edge to edge. Each resulting region can be split again. The plan records this tree.
Splitting a 1,000 × 500 mm region at 400 mm with a 3 mm kerf gives 400 × 500 and 597 × 500 mm strips. The blade consumes the remaining 3 mm; a 600 mm second strip will not survive.
Check before exporting
Select pieces on the layout and compare them with your list. Recalculate after editing a dimension: the previous result is marked as outdated and cannot be saved or exported as current.
Basic PDFs contain the layout and legend. Professional PDFs add cut sequence and labels. The server independently validates the layout and enforces quotas. Use printed dimensions as your reference; the drawing is not a full-size template.
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