Put your cut list in. Barcut Pro accounts for saw kerf, mixed stock lengths and end trim, then returns the plan with the least waste.
| Bars used | 4 |
| Material yield | 94.1% |
| Waste | 5.9% |
| Offcut saved | 0.8 m |
| Total cuts | 12 |
| Parts required | 21.2 m |
| Stock used | 22.5 m |
| Avg waste/bar | 288 mm |
| Largest offcut | 760 mm |
| Reusable offcut | 0.8 m |
| Solve time | 0.20 s |
| Status | All parts placed |
| LENGTH (MM) | BARS |
|---|---|
| 6200 | 2 |
| 5600 | 1 |
| 4500 | 1 |
Most cutting optimisers make you install a Windows program, buy a licence, and fight a UI from another decade. Barcut Pro is a website. Sign up, and you're optimising in under a minute — completely free.
We switched from a spreadsheet and a lot of guesswork. Kerf and end trim are accounted for properly, so the plan the software gives us is the plan that actually works at the saw. Cut our offcut pile in half.
No install, no IT ticket, just signed in and started. I was sceptical it would beat our old desktop optimiser but it runs faster and the mixed stock length handling is genuinely better.
Does exactly what it says — put lengths in, get a cutting plan out. Would like a mobile view for the shop floor but the desktop version is solid every day.
Free was the hook, staying was easy. It found mixed-length combinations our team missed by hand and the offcut tracking means less material gets binned between jobs.
No licence, no install, no sales call. Create an account, add your stock lengths and profiles, and optimise your first job in a couple of minutes.
Production teams run Barcut Pro every day — cut lists in the morning, plans at the saw the same shift.
Rectangular parts nested into sheet material, with grain direction and blade width. Leave your address and we'll send one email when it ships.
A cutting optimizer is software that takes a cutting list (the lengths or shapes you need, with quantities) and the stock you have available, then computes a plan for how to cut it that minimizes waste.
One-dimensional (1D) cutting optimization plans how to cut required lengths from stock bars — bars, profiles, extrusion, pipe or timber — using as little stock as possible. It is Barcut Pro’s live, free-to-try optimizer.
Yes. Enter every stock length you have, each with its own available quantity or left unlimited, and Barcut Pro decides which lengths to use — mixing them within one job when that reduces waste.
Kerf (the material lost to the saw blade on every cut) is deducted at each cut, so the plan Barcut Pro returns matches what the saw actually produces, not an idealized version that runs short of material.
Not yet. 2D sheet and panel optimization is in development. The 1D optimizer for bars, profiles and linear stock is live now — see the 2D cutting optimizer page for what’s planned.