Professional panel cutting tools — free forever, no credit card.
Our algorithm tests 148 different nesting strategies including first-fit decreasing, area-based sorting, and advanced guillotine heuristics. It automatically picks the layout with the least waste across all your sheets.
Create custom materials with specific thicknesses, grain properties, and colors — up to 20 on the free plan, unlimited with Pro. Works with plywood, MDF, melamine, solid wood, metal, glass, acrylic, and any flat sheet material.
Mark parts as requiring grain direction and CutPlan ensures they're always placed correctly on the sheet. Grain-sensitive parts are never rotated against their grain orientation.
Specify edge banding on any combination of edges (top, bottom, left, right) per part. The optimizer accounts for banding thickness in layout calculations for perfect fits.
Export professional cut plans with visual sheet layouts, step-by-step cutting instructions, part labels, dimensions, and material usage statistics. Ready to take to the shop floor.
See sheet layouts update instantly as you add or modify parts. No need to click 'calculate' — results appear in real-time as you type dimensions and quantities.
Save unlimited projects on this device and keep one saved to the cloud for free — Pro removes that limit entirely. Every cloud project lives in Workshop, where you can track its materials, stock and history across your projects.
CutPlan runs in 21 languages, including full right-to-left layouts for Hebrew, Arabic and Farsi. Every screen — from part entry to the cut steps view — adapts on desktop, browser and phone.
Every plan includes a production-ready PDF with visual sheet layouts, dimensions and material usage stats. DXF export for CNC and laser workflows is included with Pro.
Cut steps are numbered and grouped by material, with grain, kerf, cut method and plies accounted for in the sequence — so the shop floor cuts in the right order every time.
Set a material's form to roll and enter its width, the selvedge on each edge and the seam allowance. Stock is entered in metres or yards. Plies let you cut several layers at once, weight can be recorded per square metre, per roll or per metre, and a minimum usable remnant per material decides what counts as stock afterwards. The result is the linear length to buy per roll. Available on every plan.
With the piece editor you draw a part as an outline — straight edges, arcs and holes — on desktop or phone, pick it from the shape library or import an SVG. The optimizer nests shaped pieces by their real outline, keeps each one on the grain, and on printed fabric matches the repeat at a chosen match point. One pattern can be expanded into a grid of sizes and colours. Included on every plan.