CutList Plus Woodworking Software  
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Powerful sheet layout optimization, board-feet calculations and cost estimating for your woodworking projects

CutList Plus woodworking software lets you quickly generate cutting diagrams that make the most efficient use of your plywood and lumber. Calculate exactly how much material to buy for your project, and what it will cost. Spend more time in your workshop, less time drawing layouts.

Now, it's easy to make changes and instantly re-calculate your cutting diagrams and project costs.

Sheet layout cutting diagram example

  • Generate optimized sheet goods layouts and dimensioned lumber cutting diagrams.
  • Create materials requirements lists and project cost estimates based on your cut list.
  • Print labels to keep your parts organized as you work.
  • Calculate edge-banding automatically.
  • Keep track of your raw materials inventory, and automatically adjust it based on your projects.
  • Adjust your expected lumber yield at any time to instantly see your new project cost estimate.

  • Change the primary material of your project and immediately see the results.
  • Automatically determine the nominal thickness of rough stock required for each part.
  • Combine multiple projects into one large project.
  • Import parts lists from Microsoft Excel® and CAD software.
  • Export layout diagrams and "take-off" lists.
  • Switch between English and metric units at any time.
  • Group parts into sub-assemblies for large projects.
  • Print copies of your cut list, pick list and layout diagrams for your workshop and the lumber dealer.

Look at the screen shots, check out the pricing and proposal tool, then download the free trial and benefit from this powerful program risk-free. You can put CutList Plus to work today in your own shop and see how it will streamline the planning stages of your woodworking projects.

With the free trial "Reader", you'll be able to open CutList Plus files created by others, and enter a few parts of your own to test out the software's features, including sheet layout and calculating board feet.

If you like what you see, it's simple to upgrade online to the Edition that's right for you.

The comprehensive and powerful capabilities of the program are designed to put you in total control of your project:

  • Full support for rough lumber, dimensioned lumber and sheet goods of all sizes.
  • Built-in support for many pricing systems, including board-feet, cubic feet, cubic meters, square feet, square meters, lineal feet, lineal meters, and more.
  • "Dashboard" controls let you adjust optimization settings.
  • Calculate your costs based on either full or partial sheets.
  • Automatically picks the best size sheets/boards, based on your preferences.
  • Choose your fonts, colors and patterns for cutting diagrams.

Click here to go to the free trial download page.

Or, click here to purchase your own copy now.

Published Reviews

"A one-time expenditure of less than $100 repaid itself in time and materials after just a few projects."
WOOD Magazine
November 2005

"The program shows you the most economical way of achieving what you need from your chosen material."
New Woodworking (UK)
October 2005

"There are a lot of panel optimizers to choose from, but the one I'm sticking with is CutList Plus. Best of all, the program is easy to learn."
Workbench Magazine
August 2002

"CutList Plus helps you to maximize wood use for less than $100!"
Woodshop News
February 2002

"I was lucky to find a program that is simple to use and inexpensive to buy: CutList Plus. This is a real timesaver."
Danny Proulx, CabinetMaker Magazine
May 2002

"I would have given my right arm to have a piece of software like CutList Plus."
American Router
May/June 2004

"[F]or about the cost of a router bit set, CutList Plus is an investment quickly recovered in planning time and materials savings."
Rénovation-Bricolage (Canada)
April 2004

"CutList Plus can save you lots of time and headaches. It's easy to learn and is plain fun to use. And you certainly can't complain about the price or upgrade policy. I think there's a place for CutList Plus on many woodworker's hard drives."
Woodbin.com

"CutList Plus will prove to be a great asset for the home or small shop owners who can't invest several hundred dollars ina professional cabinet shop program."
Woodworkers Journal ezine

"Find real material savings using sheet layout optimization."
Custom Woodworking Business
June 2002

"Best of the Net. An easy and inexpensive way to decrease wasted wood."
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