Cut Planner

ShopWorks

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About this app

Cut Planner is a powerful cut list optimizer designed to help you plan efficient cutting layouts for lumber, tube, pipe, extrusion, and other linear stock materials.

Simply enter your cut list and available stock lengths, and Cut Planner generates an optimized cutting plan that minimizes waste and shows you exactly how to cut each piece.

Perfect for woodworking, fabrication, construction, and DIY projects, Cut Planner helps you save material, reduce scrap, and execute jobs more efficiently directly from your phone.


Optimize Your Cut Lists

Many cutting jobs are planned using rough notes, manual calculations, or simple spreadsheets. Cut Planner replaces that process with a fast, purpose-built cut optimizer.

Enter your cuts using simple shorthand and instantly generate an optimized cutting layout that reduces waste and improves material usage.

The app also shows a baseline cutting plan so you can clearly see the difference between a naive cutting order and an optimized layout. This makes it easy to understand how much material the optimizer is saving.


Designed for Real Shop Work

Cut Planner is built for people who cut material regularly and need fast, reliable planning.

Ideal for:

• Woodworkers planning lumber cuts
• Fabricators cutting steel or aluminum tube
• Contractors working with boards and trim
• DIY builders planning projects
• Anyone cutting linear materials from stock lengths

Whether you're working with 96" boards, long tubing, aluminum extrusion, or other stock materials, Cut Planner helps you plan cuts quickly and efficiently.


Fast Cut List Entry

Entering cut lists is quick and flexible.

Use simple shorthand input like:

24.125 x 15
18.25 x 30
10.875 x 50

Stock materials can also be entered just as quickly, allowing you to define multiple stock lengths and quantities.

Cut Planner is designed to match the way people actually write cut lists in the shop.


Clear Visual Cut Plans

Generated cut plans are displayed using easy-to-read visual stock bars so you can immediately see how each piece will be cut.

Each stock piece shows:

• Cut segments
• Kerf spacing
• Trim allowances
• Remaining scrap

This makes the plan easy to understand at a glance.


Optimized vs Baseline Comparison

Cut Planner doesn't just generate an optimized plan.

It also generates a baseline cutting layout based on the simple "cut in order" approach many people use manually.

This allows you to clearly compare:

• material waste
• stock usage
• cutting efficiency

and see the real benefit of optimization.


Cut Mode – Work Directly From Your Phone

Once your plan is generated, Cut Mode helps guide you through the job step by step.

Cut Mode shows:

• current stock piece
• next cut length
• cuts remaining
• visual progress on each stock bar

Mark cuts complete as you go and track progress throughout the job.

This allows you to move directly from planning to execution without needing paper notes or external tools.


Export Clean PDF Cut Plans

Need to share your plan with someone else?

Cut Planner can export professional PDF cut plans that include:

• project details
• stock information
• cut layouts
• scrap and efficiency metrics
• visual board diagrams

Perfect for printing, sharing with coworkers, or keeping records of completed jobs.


Additional Features

• Supports both optimized and baseline cut plans
• Visual cut layout diagrams
• Material notes for job context
• Job history and saved cut plans
• Fractional and decimal cut display options
• Handles stock shortages clearly when material is insufficient


Built for Efficiency

Cut Planner focuses on one goal: helping you get from cut list to clear cutting plan as quickly as possible.

If you regularly cut boards, tubing, pipe, extrusion, or other linear materials, this tool helps you reduce waste and make better use of your stock.

Plan faster, cut smarter, and save material with Cut Planner.

What’s new

Production release