Manual editing

Drag, rotate or lock a piece yourself, and let the tool calculate around it.

Switching manual on

By default the tool decides the layout. To step in yourself, switch on the Manual editing toggle in the Settings block. On: select, drag and lock panels in the plan; the tool recalculates around them.

In the narrow layout the same sits under Advanced.

What you can do with a piece

Click a piece in the plan. A small menu appears with what you can do with it.

Rotate: Rotate the piece a quarter turn. With a fixed grain direction this is not possible: Can't rotate: this part's grain direction is fixed.
Lock: This piece stays where it is. From now on the tool calculates all other pieces around it. That lets you force one thing without having to place the rest yourself.
Unlock: Release the lock, so the piece joins in normally again.
Unlock all: If you locked several pieces, this releases them all at once. Handy before you run a thorough search, because that re-packs everything freely.
Grain: Change the grain direction of this one piece, without going to the list.

Dragging works too: pick up a piece and drop it in another spot or on another sheet. If that is impossible, the tool says why, for instance This part does not fit on this sheet. or No room for this part on this sheet.. Drag it to a sheet of a different material and you hear that too: This part belongs to Plywood (birch); drag it onto a sheet of that material.

Back to automatic

Two buttons appear above the plan as soon as you change something: ↶ Undo undoes your last step, and Back to automatic throws away everything you did by hand and lets the tool lay out again.

Tip In the cutting plan you do this with the buttons, not the keyboard: Cmd or Ctrl + Z does not work here. In the cabinet designer it does. See Keyboard shortcuts.

When you change something after editing

If you locked pieces and then change a size, the tool does not simply throw your work away. You get the message You changed something. This cutting plan is not updated yet. with the button Update cutting plan.

If your change also affects which sheets you need, you first see a comparison: What changes about your sheets?, with Now beside After update, and the number of sheets, the waste, the offcuts and the indicative price below. Then you choose Keep my sheets or New sheets.

Note If you already bought your sheets, choose Keep my sheets. A leaner plan does not help you when it asks for a sheet you do not have in the car.