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Linear stock
Cut studs, rails, tube and bar from stock lengths with the fewest sticks. Every stick is accounted for along its length: the pieces, the kerf after each cut, and the drop at the end.
Free, with no account needed.
How it is solved
For linear stock, only length matters. The optimizer places the longest pieces first and fits the rest into the space left on each stick, then reports the cuts on every stick as a sequence measured from its end, the way you read a tape.
Kerf is charged after each cut. The last cut is the exception worth knowing: when the drop left after a piece is narrower than the blade, the blade simply runs off the end of the stick, and no kerf is charged for material that is not there.
On every stick, the pieces, the kerf, the offcut and the waste add up exactly to the stick’s length, and the validator checks that they do.
What you control
The saw’s blade width, entered as 1/8, 0.125 or 3 mm. Through the API it can also be set per material or per stock length.
List every length you stock, 8′, 10′ and 12′ for example, with how many of each, and the plan draws from all of them.
Minimize the number of sticks, the waste, the number of cuts, or cost when your stock lengths have prices.
Set the shortest drop worth keeping. Drops at least that long are offered as offcuts; shorter ones are labelled waste.
Plan against the sticks on the rack, or leave the quantity blank for as many as the job needs. Pieces longer than any stock are listed with the reason.
Type 92 5/8 and it stays 92 5/8. Inches, feet, millimetres, centimetres and metres are all exact.
A real job
Studs, a header, cripples, blocking and a sill for one framed wall opening. Thirteen pieces come from four 12′ sticks, and one drop is long enough to keep under the job’s 24″ minimum.
Stock: 12′ sticks, 1/8″ kerf. Every figure is read from the solve shown at the top of this page.