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Manual
The complete cutlistlab manual: every screen, every button and every setting, with screenshots. Search above for the name of a button, or browse the chapters.
1
Getting started
What the tool does, and how to get your first cutting plan within five minutes.
2
Parts
The list of what you want to cut: entering, changing, duplicating, and what every column means.
3
Sizes and units
Millimetre, centimetre, inch or foot: how to switch, how to type fractions, and how to enter in one unit and read out in another.
4
Sheet material
The sheets to cut from: entering your own, picking from the library, quantities, price and factory edges.
5
The material library
Sheet material exactly as the store really sells it, with size, thickness and price. Plus your own saved sheets.
6
Settings
Saw kerf, minimum offcut, which properties count and which columns you see. Plus the window with language, country and unit.
7
What the tool optimises for
Least waste, fewest cuts or lowest cost, and what a thorough search adds on top.
8
Reading the cutting plan
What every area, line and number in the drawing means, and how to read the figures below it.
9
Manual editing
Drag, rotate or lock a piece yourself, and let the tool calculate around it.
10
Cut list and cutting order
The list of sizes to tick off, and the step-by-step order in which you cut.
11
Grain and edge banding
When a piece may rotate, and how edge banding changes the cutting size.
12
The cabinet designer
From cabinet size to parts list: pick a type, fill in sizes, divide the compartments, and set the construction.
13
Drawers, doors and hardware
The fine sizing: overlay or inset, slide type, box dimensions and clearance. This is where a cabinet stands or falls.
14
Linear cutting
Battens, baseboards, profiles and framing: everything you buy by length instead of as a sheet.
15
Offcut stock
Keeping offcuts across projects, letting them join the calculation automatically, and tracking what is still in your shed.
16
Projects
Save, open, rename, copy, mark Done and share. Everything you make is kept.
17
Account and syncing
Everything works without an account, locally. With an account your projects and offcut stock follow you across devices.
18
Export and print
Every output format in a row: PDF, print, image, CSV, project file and DXF, and what each is for.
19
Labels
A label per cut piece, so you still know what is what after half a sheet. On a cut-out sheet, label sheet or roll.
20
CSV in and out
Paste parts in from Excel in one go, and get your cut list back as a file.
21
Example projects
More than twenty worked-out cabinets to start from, from TV unit to garage cupboard. You adapt them to your own sizes.
22
What do I need
The shopping list: sheets, edge banding and hardware with quantities and guide prices, calculated from your own plan.
23
No plan appears
The red bar above the plan, what each message means, and the button that fixes it in one click.
24
Keyboard shortcuts
Which keys do something, and where. Short, because there are not many.
25
Languages, countries and currency
Forty languages for the text, and a separate country choice for the stores, the unit and the currency. Two things, not one.
26
Storage and privacy
Where your work lives, when it can disappear, and how to make a copy of it.
27
On your phone
What is different on a small screen, and how to use the tool next to your saw or in the store.