PanelLogic: Cut List Optimizer

PanelLogic is a cut list optimizer for plywood, MDF, particleboard (chipboard) and hardboard. Type in your parts or bring the list from your design software: it lays them out on your sheets, works out the edge banding and the offcuts, and draws up the order quote. It runs on Android phones and tablets, and the optimization works without internet. On the sheet: • Parts are placed with the grain direction respected: a part marked with grain is never rotated. • Guillotine cuts, edge to edge, with the blade kerf counted between parts. You can also ask for two- or three-stage cutting, or for non-guillotine (contour) cutting, for machines that cut around each part. • Three plan priorities: material, balanced or production. • Press "Optimize" again and it searches again (Layout 1, 2, 3…). Each one stays as a button, and you pick the one to print. Search time is set in Settings: short, medium or long. The app tells you whether the search ran to the end or stopped at its limit. • Parts that don't fit are listed by name, with the reason. Sheet stock and edge banding: • Your stock: full sheets and offcuts, with prices. Offcuts marked with a star are used first. • When you press "accept this plan", the sheets used come out of stock and the usable offcuts go back in. • Edge trim is taken out of the sheet size, not added on top. • Edge banding on each side, with the banding type and its price per meter. The banding thickness can be deducted from the part size. • Materials priced per sheet or per square meter. Quotes, printouts and files: • The order quote on one page: sheets to buy, edge banding, machine work, labor and the total. • The plan on paper as a PDF, one sheet per page; PNG or JPEG images, one DXF per sheet, and a CSV list of the cuts. • Part labels, printed on paper. • The plan goes to SawPilot, on the tablet next to the panel saw, as a file. The parts list: • Import the parts list from csv, txt, tsv or xlsx files, or paste rows from Excel. PanelLogic guesses which column is which, shows you what it guessed and remembers it for that kind of file. • Several projects in one order; each part carries its project and number, for example "Kitchen · 17". • Millimeters, centimeters or inches; you choose the currency. 30 languages. Who it's for: custom furniture and cabinet shops that cut sheet goods on a panel saw or a sliding table saw. The optimization runs on the device, even with no signal. The app needs the internet only for signing in, the license and buying; on Android it also connects to Google Play at start-up, to show the buy button. Your account is just an email address and a six-digit code, with no password. No ads, no tracking. Fifteen free orders to try; optimizing the same order again doesn't use up another one. The full version is bought inside the app, through Google Play, as a one-time purchase with no subscription. It unlocks unlimited orders, importing the parts list (csv, txt, tsv, xlsx), "Open project", "Save stock", "Import stock" and the order quote. The license belongs to your account and works on up to three devices at a time, which you can swap at any time. The plan on screen, the stock, the edge banding, the paper plan, the labels and sending to SawPilot stay open to everyone.