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Workbench Cut list with grain PDF Saving Data and other bits and pieces Wander over to and either create an account or sign in with a Google Account as you wish.Ĭlick on the three horizontal bars in the top right corner of the Panels roll-up, and from the list that appears select Import From CSV. Here in the UK Metric is the order of the day, so for me, panel size, sheet size and blade kerf are all in mm. This can be extended, including the addition of some additional features, with a subscription starting at $15 monthly using PayPal.įor my “Hobby Woodworker” use I subscribed for the first month while I experimented and found my way around, after that the “free” limits proved more than enough.īefore anyone asks, Cutlist Optimizer is “ unit agnostic”, it doesn’t care if you work in inches or metres, or square elephants per hectare for that matter, but the units must be consistent throughout the tool.

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Once you click OK the BOM CSV file is created.ĭownload the Edited Workbench BOM CSV Creating a Basic Optimized Cut ListĬutlist Optimizer is an online tool only requiring only a free account providing you limit your calculate usage to 10 “calculates” a day and have up to 5 saved projects.

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This happily survives changes in the component view.ĬREATE > Create BOM opens the dialogue above to which I made no changes other than the selection of Exclude “_” previously mentioned.Ĭreate BOM has its own Cut List option but the resulting text file while easily human-readable was not suitable for use with any cut list/sheet layout software I have found to date. I found it simpler to exclude specific components by starting their names with an underscore ( _component) and enabling the Exclude “_” option when creating the BOM.

Enabling the Selected only option when creating the BOM allows you to highlight the items you wish to include in the export but if you later change the visibility in the browser you may inadvertently change the items included.

Even here the “wide leg” pairs were created by copying and then rotating the components rather than mirroring. Looking at the current design there are a couple of instances where I had to “Copy New” to allow the creation of drawer slides on the front face. Using “Copy” results in a single item in the BOM with the quantity incremented by 1, “Mirror” or “Copy New” both produce multiple items in the BOM, each with a quantity of 1, the same dimensions and different labels.

Use “Copy” rather than “Mirror” or “Copy New” when duplicating components.

Component names are important, they become the panel labels in the cut list so meaningful names are recommended.

Getting the BOM out of Fusion…ĭesigning an item with a view to BOM production has a few “gotchas” of its own as I discovered to my cost – it took a number of iterations of both the Fusion design and BOM export to get the result I wanted.ĭownload the Fusion file if you wish to follow along… There are a few tricks to getting good results, but that’s what this article is about.

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But how to get a well laid out cut list for the tweaked design?Īs it turns out this was really easy, Fusion can export a BOM as a CSV with a free plugin from GitHub and with a little gentle persuading Cutlist Optimizer can import them.

While looking at workbench designs for my soon-to-be-built space I stumbled on Suso’s Modular Workbench over at PS Woodworking ( well worth a visit – Suso has some really cool woodworking projects for the workshop) which I really liked but wanted to “fiddle with”, so I recreated it in Fusion 360. I found Cutlist Optimizer a while ago whilst designing my new workshop (also in Fusion 360 – trust me Fusion is not the best tool for designing buildings even wooden ones!). This article grew out of my experiences with BOM’s, cut lists, and sheet fitting solutions for me to use as a “Hobby Woodworker”. Those of you who read the PDO Community Fusion 360 Q & A may have spotted BOM’s – Am I missing something? The original question triggering my foray into BOMs and Panel Cutting. Featuring the Fusion 360 BOM & Cutlist Optimizer …

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