1D Stock Cutter Alternatives

1D Stock Cutter

1D Stock Cutter (1DSC) is the length cutting optimizer - fast, powerful, compact and easy to use software tool for cutting to length of any linear (one-dimensional) material: profiles, bars, extrusions, pipes, tubes, channels, angles, rods, lineal wood boards, beams, lumber, and so on.
- customizable optimization goal;
- customizable cutting/technology settings;
- support for stock material inventory;
- support for part order/reference lists;
- automatic update of the inventory lists;
- data import and export in many formats;
- Metric and Imperial length/size units;
- easy installation / uninstallation;

Linear material cutting optimization (length nesting) software solves the so-called One-dimensional Stock Cutting / Bin Packing Problem: optimizes the distribution of a large number of pieces (parts) having mostly different lengths amongst a number of uniform or different stock lengths/sizes. The main goal is to minimize either the overall material waste, or the associated material cost.
Typically, 1DSC brings down material waste by a factor of 10 (from about 10% to about 1%) with respect to manual cut planning. Program run time is around 1 - 100 seconds depending on the number of items involved and CPU speed. In any case, it saves time and reduces the level of experience required for cut planning dramatically.