Online panel cutting layout

How the layout is made from your design

The layout is calculated from the cutting list of your 3D project, so you never retype sizes into a separate program. Prosciej expands the list into single parts, groups them by decor and board thickness and places them on sheets in rows.

The tallest parts go first, left to right within each row. When a row is full the next one starts, and when a sheet is full a new sheet is opened. The same input always gives the same layout.

For every decor and thickness you get the number of sheets and how much of the board is used. Change a size in the project and the layout recalculates after you save.

No 3D model? Type or paste sizes into the cut-part list tool, or try the layout in the “How many sheets do you need?” demo on the home page — up to 30 rows, no account.

What the layout takes into account

It does not just stack rectangles. It allows for the things that change the number of sheets in a real workshop:

• Saw kerf — the gap between neighbouring parts on a sheet. The default is 4.8 mm; set the kerf of your own saw under “Cutting and edge banding” in the settings.
• Board edge trim — by default 10 mm comes off every edge of the sheet before the first cut. This is a setting you can change too.
• Cut size — parts are placed at their cut size, that is the finished size minus the edge banding, rounded up to a whole millimetre. You can switch this off and lay out finished sizes instead.
• Grain direction — a part with locked grain is never turned, and a part without a lock is turned by 90° only when it would not fit otherwise. Transverse decors, whose grain runs along the short side of the sheet, are recognised.
• One decor and one thickness per sheet — an 18 mm carcass board and a 3 mm HDF back never share a sheet.
• Oversize parts and worktops — a part that fits no sheet is listed separately instead of vanishing. Kitchen worktops go on a separate “cut to size” list, to order from your supplier.

Where you see the layout

The same layout appears in three places, and the cutting list can go to your board supplier as a file.

• In the editor — for a saved project, sheet by sheet, with the number of sheets, how much of the board is used and the leftover.
• In the PDF — a sheet-layout section drawing every sheet, with the saw kerf and the edge trim in the legend. The PDF comes with prices or without.
• In the DXF — the part outlines placed on the sheets, one layer per piece of furniture and grain-direction arrows.
• In a CSV or XLSX file — the cutting list for a supplier who cuts your boards. The Prosciej template works with eRozkroje, and there is a FastCut / Order Manager template too. The supplier makes their own layout.

A quick layout, not an optimiser

This is a simple, repeatable layout in rows. It answers “how many sheets do I buy”, but it does not search for the best possible arrangement, does not plan the order of saw cuts and does not keep a stock of offcuts.

For now the layout is calculated on a 2800 × 2070 mm sheet. You set board sizes in the settings to match your board maker's format, and the editor warns you when a part does not fit. If you buy boards in another format, or every percent counts for you, compare the result with the software of your cutting service.