Sketchup cutlist sheet goods. Summarizes cutlist showing board feet or square feet for sheet goods by material and also gives totals. Now a cutlist isnt that difficult to create by hand. Cutlist plus example result. Cutmap comes pre installed with a material named birchply and that material is assigned to 4 x 8 and 1220mm x 2440mm stock sheet goods items.
This project uses a sheet of mdf with dimensions of 48x96 inches. Then click sketchup menu. For my own use a few images exported from the sketchup file usually suffice. Generate optimized cutting patterns based on the available stock sheets by nesting the required parts.
The cut lists accuracy is dependent on how well youve drawn your model. Your first table saw. To get started simply paint your model with the birchply item select those stock goods in the available stock list and create a cutlist. Cut list plan after model is drawn in sketchup designer should select components or groups he wants to be cut.
As dave observes cutlist generates two kinds of output. Cutlist plus has done a good job of optimizing the cuts. For a sheet goods to be recognized the sheet word must be in the applied material name not the component name. A step by step guide to making your first cuts.
Heres the bottom of the cut list web page. Getting a cutlist is very fast and easy but remember this is a computer were dealing with and gigo garbage in gabarge out applies. Later you can customize the materials to what you actually want to use. Online panel cutting optimization software.
It is handy though to have a cutlist so i have the overall sizes of the parts at hand as well as a shopping list when i go to the store for parts. Steve ramsey woodworking for mere mortals 268363 views. Im curious as to where you got this information. A list of all the pieces in your model a cut list and an attempt to lay out all the parts onto solid and sheet goods.
Handles metric and imperial measure based on the options selected in your model. There are no sheet materials in the model so no sheet goods section is displayed. The lay out is constrained by board sizes you specify and if for example your model has a 9 foot long part and you only allowed 8 foot boards you will get that message.