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Manufacturing & Production

For factories and production teams — cutting, nesting, veneer, CNC and material loss. The tools that decide how much timber leaves the building as product rather than sawdust.

Cut List Optimizer

Best cut layout to minimise waste

Kerf Loss Calculator

Material lost to saw kerf

Kerf Bending Calculator

Cut spacing and depth to bend sheet to a radius

Veneer Layup Tool

Plan balanced veneer construction

CNC Feed Calculator

Feed and speed for router bits

Edge Band Calculator

Edge banding length and cost

Veneer Matching Tool

Book, slip and other match patterns

Bending Radius Calculator

Minimum safe bend radius

MDF Weight Calculator

Sheet weight by thickness and size

Hardware Position Tool

Hinge and handle placement

Nesting Efficiency Calculator

Sheet utilisation for nested parts

Where the material actually goes

These are the tools that decide the difference between quoted and actual material cost in a production shop.

Panel optimisation and nesting efficiency address the largest single loss: offcut. Kerf loss addresses the one that is invisible per cut and significant per sheet — a 3.2 mm blade through a hundred cuts is a board and a half of timber turned into dust.

Feeds and speeds matter more in timber than in metal for one reason: burn. Too slow and the cutter dwells and scorches the cut, and scorched hardwood is not sandable to invisible. Chip load, not spindle RPM, is the number to hold.

Glue consumption, edge banding and sanding sequence cover consumables and finishing labour — and the sanding sequence is where hours are usually lost, because skipping a grit costs more time in the next one than it saved.