Online cutting optimization · metal, wood, glass, PVC
Cut all your materials (steel, wood, glass, PVC, aluminum)
with as little offcut as possible.
You enter your cutting list, Cut to Fab picks the bars or panels and lays out the cutting plan: shared cuts, fewer saw angle changes, reusable offcuts identified and fed back into the next calculation. The plan then goes out as a PDF for the workshop and a DXF for the machine.
- Nothing to install
- In your browser
- No credit card
- No account
What it covers
From the cutting list to the machine file.
1D cutting
Bars, tubes and profiles
2D nesting
Sheets, panels, plates
In progress
STEP import
Read the 3D part directly
Unfolding
From bend to flat blank
Workshop exports
PDF to post up, DXF to load
No install
Opens in the browser, works without a network
What the software does
Three calculations, one project.
Offline
1D cutting — bars and profiles
A cut list becomes a cutting plan, bar by bar. Paired miter cuts (two mitered pieces sharing a single saw kerf) and minimizing angle changes reduce both the material lost and the time spent resetting the saw. Offcuts long enough to serve again are listed separately, ready to be fed back into a later calculation.
In development
Sheets and panels — 2D nesting
Placing your parts into your sheet, panel or plate sizes, with interlocking and edge margin, then producing the cutting DXF: this module is still being built. It runs, you can try it, but we do not yet sell it as a production tool — and we would rather write that here than let you find out. Unfolding, on the other hand, already produces usable blanks.
Connection required
STEP import and unfolding
A STEP assembly opens straight in the browser: profiles are recognized and measured, and the cut list comes out without retyping. Sheet metal parts, for their part, are unfolded on our servers and come back as flat DXF, ready for nesting. Those two steps need a connection.
1D cutting
The cutting plan, bar by bar.
15 cut parts, 2 bars, 96.3% of the material used. The 45° miters of P2 and P3 are cut head to tail: a single saw kerf per joint, 80 mm of tube saved on that profile alone. The plan goes out as PDF for the workshop and DXF for the machine.
Product focus
Your STEP file becomes a cutting list.
You drop in the assembly, Cut to Fab recognizes the profiles, reads their lengths and cutting angles, and fills in the cutting list for you. Sheet metal parts from the same assembly are unfolded and produced as flat blanks.
The file is read in your browser: the assembly never leaves your machine. Unfolding, on the other hand, needs a connection.
96,3 %
material used in our reference example
0 €
for the Free plan, with no time limit
2
output formats: PDF for the workshop, DXF for the machine
0
files uploaded: 1D cutting is calculated in your browser
It works even when the workshop has no network.
Nothing to install: Cut to Fab opens in your browser, and the calculation runs there — not in a data center. Fiber cut, router down, site with no coverage: the cutting still gets done, and it stays on the machine.
Without a connection
- 1D cutting optimization, paired miters included
- 2D nesting of sheets and panels (in development)
- Reading the STEP file and 3D view
- PDF, CSV and DXF exports
- Saving projects on the machine
With a connection
- Unfolding of sheet metal parts
- Automatic profile recognition from a STEP file
- Project sync across several machines
- Offcut stock shared from one calculation to the next
Pricing
Start free, no credit card.
Hover over “On request” to see the details. Pro and Workshop pricing is available on request.
No account
Free
Open, try, no signup.
To open the app and try it in one click, without creating anything.
- 2 projects
- 30 cut parts per calculation
- Unlimited 3D CAD import (STEP, IGES, BREP…)
- Paired miters ⋈ + minimized angle settings
- No export (PDF / CSV / DXF)
Verified account
Free
After email confirmation.
For a real small job, with documents to bring back to the workshop.
- 5 projects
- 50 cut parts per project
- Unlimited 3D CAD import (STEP, IGES, BREP…)
- Paired miters ⋈ + minimized angle settings
- PDF/CSV/DXF export (watermarked)
- Project export / import as .json
Most asked for
Pro
On request
Quote tailored to your usage.
To industrialise quoting in the workshop.
- Unlimited projects and cut parts
- Unlimited multi-file STEP import
- Combining projects ×N
- PDF/CSV/DXF exports without watermark
- Offcut stock: saved in one click, fed back into a calculation
Workshop
On request
Up to 5 user accounts.
For a workshop with several people, with onboarding.
- Everything in the Pro plan
- Up to 5 user accounts for the workshop
- Video onboarding session and priority email support
Pro and Workshop pricing is available on request — write to us, we’ll propose a quote tailored to your usage.
What you are not risking
- No signup to try it. Open the app from the website and try it on a real small job, without an account.
- The verified account stays free. 5 projects, 50 cut parts per project, watermarked exports: that’s the default mode of an account, not a time-limited trial.
- Your data always comes back out. Exporting a project as .json works as soon as an account is verified, on every plan.
Frequently asked questions
What people ask us before signing.
Do my files go to a server?
For 1D optimization, 2D nesting and every export: no, nothing leaves your machine — the calculation is done by your browser and projects are saved locally. Two functions are the exception, and they say so on screen: the unfolding of a sheet metal part and the profile recognition of a STEP file, which send the geometry concerned to our server for the time the calculation takes. If you sync your projects across several machines, they are then stored with us, encrypted in transit.
Is there a trial period?
There is no time-limited Pro trial, and that is deliberate: the Free plan never expires. Without an account, you compute your cutting plans — 2 projects, 30 cut parts per calculation — but cannot export them. With a verified account, also free, you move up to 5 projects and 50 cut parts per project, and you export to PDF, CSV and DXF, with a watermark. Enough for a small real job to go through whole, which is worth more than a full account for two weeks.
How does payment work?
Today, through a conversation and then an invoice — there is no online card payment yet. That is deliberate for the first customers: it forces us to talk to you before we bill you. Self-service payment will come, and existing subscriptions will be moved over with no change of price.
What uptime do you guarantee?
None, and we would rather write it down. The unfolding and sync servers run on infrastructure we manage ourselves, on a line that is not a data center’s: we do not sell an uptime figure or a guaranteed turnaround. That is precisely why the core of the software — cutting and exports — runs in your browser and keeps working when our servers do not.
Do I need to install anything?
No. Cut to Fab opens in a recent browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari), on Windows, macOS or Linux. It can also be “installed” as an application from the browser, so it opens in one click on the workshop machine.
Can I get my data back if I stop?
Yes, without asking us. Every project exports to .json and imports back unchanged; cutting plans come out as PDF, lists as CSV, outlines as DXF. There is no closed format holding you in.
Try it on your next cut list.
Take the cut list of a job you have already quoted and compare. If Cut to Fab does not save you a bar, we have nothing to sell you.