I was browsing the web for woodworking software and found CutList Plus on
Looks like a decent product to me for the price vs. functionnalities.
Thanks for any advices.
Wally
I was browsing the web for woodworking software and found CutList Plus on
Looks like a decent product to me for the price vs. functionnalities.
Thanks for any advices.
Wally
Have used CutListPlus for a couple of years and find it easy to use, understand, and easy to modify. I am a hobbyist, so cannot comment on commercial usefuleness, but for home, it is very good
Chris
I used to make up sheets with a "ruler" along top and side and a box scaled to the rulers to represent a 4x8 sheet. I could use that to layout plywood cuts through trial and error.
CutList Plus is just *WAAAAAAY* better :) (good for lumber too).
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It paid for itself on my first use. I do quasi commercial work (side business). I find it is much better for sheet stock applications but I use it almost exclusively for lumber based projects. It's not quite as well built for that but I can always get it to do what I want with a little fudging.
It can be a bit of a pain to enter all the various stock sizes. However, I use it mostly when I am buying dimensioned lumber, such as Pine 1x8's, 10's and 12's. Thankfully these usually come in consistent lengths too.
I have found that rather than just entering a wood type of "Pine" and entering all the various widths under one heading, then, letting the software completly decide where to put the pieces; I put in Pine8, Pine10, etc. Then I can assign which pieces I want cut from which widths. Because sometimes it cuts a bunch of 2" wide pieces from 12" wide boards when I have 8's or 6's that I would rather use for those parts.
Finally, I like to set it up for cross cuts first. I sometimes get 16' boards and don't want to rip a 16' board. Since the program is more for Plywood it almost always wants to do rips first, even when I set the settinngs for cross cuts. However, I can usually get it to obey by selecting the individual boards after it's done laying it all out and reset the the settings to get it to re-layout any boards that aren't cross cut first.
I actually think Cutlist Plus is a good product, but does this look like spam to anyone but me?
A first time poster, posting from Montreal, Canada (so is CL+), that's not good with computers, but he found usenet and uses _Free Agent_ (not a reader included with a browser), but he actually knows to munge an email address for Usenet?
Maybe I'm just a little too bored today...
From an earlier post
Try:
The last freeware version of cutlist (v 2.1.3). Download the zipped file near the bottom of the page.
HTH Bill
Good catch! I guess Wally forgot that back in June he posted:
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