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How to create a cut list for a deck?

Alan

Posted on March 5, 2023

Hello, I'm designing a deck using standard lumber, I have some pieces that are 19', 7', 3', 6", 4". I can't seem to figure out how to create a cultist that optimizes all the offcuts. What im trying to do is figure the minimum amount of lumbar to purchase. However the lumber lengths I need will range due to different cut lengths. So I'd need 20 footers, 16 footers, 8 footers, etc. But it seems that I can only generate cut lists for ONE specific 'standard length' instead of multiple lengths. Which then will result in small little cuts I need off of a giant new piece of lumber.

Is there a way to do this?

Martin Mueller

Posted on March 5, 2023

Hi Alan,

I think you are trying to do tiling and not a cutlist. In tiling the problem is different from what OpenCutList does. OCL tries to fit smaller parts inside of a larger sheet. In tiling we want to find out the best arrangement of parts from a list to fill a larger area.

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