Cut lists that move
your fence less.
This planner saves trips to the fence, because a fence set to the same number twice rarely lands in exactly the same place.
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You cut at 6", moved the fence to 8", then came back to 6". Did the two batches of 6" parts match?
Usually close, rarely exact. A fence set to the same number twice lands a hair apart, and that hair turns into a shelf that won’t sit flush or a face frame with a step in it.
This planner gathers every cut of one width under one fence setting wherever it can. The fence still moves, since a job with several widths still needs several settings, but less often, and parts cut at one setting come out the same.
How it works
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List your parts
Name, length with the grain, width and how many. Type 23-7/8, 23 7/8 or 23.875, in inches or millimetres.
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Add your stock
The sheets you are cutting from: their size, their thickness, and how many, or as many as it takes.
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Pick what matters
Fewest fence settings, least material, or a plan in between. Each shows its fence settings, cut lengths and stock side by side.
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Cut in order
Set the fence, rip everything listed under that setting, then move on. Parts from one setting match without measuring.
On the sample shop cabinet, cutting every part the way it was entered takes 7 fence settings. Letting the planner turn parts and use both sides of the blade brings it to 5, from the same 3 sheets of plywood.
What it does
Fewest fence settings
Cuts of one width share a setting wherever they can, and the plan looks for the fewest settings it can find.
A plan you can print
Each fence setting with the rips under it, each cut length, and a drawing of every sheet, ready for the shop.
Turns parts to share a width
A 24 × 12 part can come off a 12" strip or a 24" one, whichever saves a setting. Tick No turn and it stays as drawn.
Both sides of the blade
One setting can serve two different rips when the strip falls on the far side. Never when the piece left against the fence would be narrow.
Near-miss widths
A 1/32" gap between parts usually signals unintentional measurement drift rather than a real size difference, so the tool flags it since it forces an extra fence setting on the hardest-to-nudge increment—but it never auto-changes your sizes.
Fence or waste, your call
Compare the plans it finds: fence settings, cut lengths, stock to buy and how much of it ends up as parts.
Every thickness in one job
3/4" cases and 1/4" backs in one project: each part is cut from sheets of its own thickness, and one width is still one fence setting.
Inches or millimetres
Type 23-7/8, 23 7/8, 23.875 or 606.4 mm. Show inches as fractions or decimals.
Your projects, in your browser
Keep several, duplicate one to start the next, and Save all to back up or move to another device. No account.