Cut list

The Cut list tab, under the view, works out how to cut the model's linear parts from stock bars: how many bars of each length to buy for each profile and material, what goes on each bar, and the waste.

Set the stock

At the top of the tab:

• Stock lengths (mm): the lengths you can buy, separated by spaces, for example 6000 12000, or 20 ft and 40 ft bars as 6096 12192. Up to eight.
• Saw kerf (mm): what each cut takes (3 to start).
• End trim (mm): cut off the end of every bar before the first piece (0 to start).
• Keep drops from (mm): a drop at least this long goes back to stock; shorter is scrap (500 to start).

These are kept in this browser, like the other settings.

How it nests

• Every beam, column, brace and stair stringer, by part mark and count; plates are cut from sheet and are not nested here.
• Each profile and material on its own.
• Longest pieces first, each into the first bar it fits; a new bar starts as the longest stock length. Then every bar is bought as the shortest stock length that still takes its cuts.
• Each cut takes the kerf (none after a cut that ends exactly at the bar's end); each bar loses the end trim.
• A piece longer than every stock length is listed under Longer than any stock, not nested: splice it (see Splices) or add a longer stock length.

Read it

• Summary: per profile and material, the pieces, the bars to buy (for example "2 × 12000, 1 × 6000"), the metres bought and used, and the waste.
• Bars and their cuts: every bar, its stock length, its cuts as part mark and length, and the drop, kept or scrap.

Download CSV saves both tables as <name> cut list.csv.

DetailCraft does not nest plates into sheets, and does not mix profiles or materials on a bar.