Cutlists made easy! (Sketchup For Fitted Furniture Makers Part 6)
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- In this 6th and (for now) final part of the 'SketchUp For Fitted Furniture Makers' training series I show you how to easily turn your SketchUp designs into clearly labelled cutting lists and optimised sheet cutting diagrams.
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You don't even need SketchUp Pro to do this! You can do all this completely free using Sketchup Make 2017 and a free plugin called Open Cutlist. This is a crowdfunded piece of software so if it helps you please consider contributing to it's development at the link below, where you can also propose further improvements:
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As described in this video though, this will be the last monthly detailed SketchUp video in this free youtube series. There may be occasional extras but I'm no longer making any promises about it! You'll find more in future on the member only site where I will do my best to respond to the priorities of my members regarding the content they'd like to see.
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A really helpful video, thank you. I’m in the process of planning my first DIY wardrobe install and all your content has been incredibly useful. Many thanks.
Thank you Alastair, that's been one of the most useful videos I've seen from anybody!!
Excellent - and that plug-in is cracking. Thanks Alastair!
Great video Alastair . Found this Cutlist a month or so ago. It’s absolutely fantastic Cutlist. The fact you can have multiple part materials is a game changer. Gonna try figure out how to setup a label printer to it.
You could not have chosen a better time to upload this for me! Thanks again.
Great!
Very good, and as usual clear, video. I've always done this manually so am looking forward to using this extension.
Great video, never really worked with Sketchup as we use a cad program but the one thing that’s missing with ours is the ability to create a quick cutting list like this. Great time saver and very impressed by the function of naming and sorting pets via materials. I would be interested in knowing how well this would work with a CAD drawing imported from a 3rd party software. Never know you may well convert me to a sketch up user. Keep up the great work.
These videos I watch once but you really need to watch 2 or 3 times to get all the information. So amazing that this knowledge has been shared! Thank you Alistair. I manually input in to Maxcut. Good program but it just adds another process. I'm gonna try this one next.
Nic Harvey yeah this could be a game changer . A lot of this sort of stuff though, it works best when you take the time to set up the process. The reality for many of us is we carry on with the manual entry processes because we never quite get around to setting up a better system fully. Also often the better system turns out to be a bit limited or rigid.
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 wow that’s an amazing video you’ve just saved me hours of work today!! Was about to layout a cut list on two projects today and I’ve just done them both following this video which means I can spend more time with my daughter this afternoon!! Thank you 🙏 have a great day coffees on me today 😄
David Sykes that is so great and exactly in line with what I’m trying to achieve by supporting woodworkers like yourself with this sort of content!!
Hi Alastair, great video. I've been using this extension for a few weeks now and on the whole I think it's great. It can get a bit confusing when using a grained material. Also I do think the 'cutting parameters' option (for scribing) would be better on the part rather than the sheet material as having to create another material sort of mucks up the sheet optimisation. Keep up the good work 👍🏻
amazing tutorial. thank you very much for the knowledge sharing
Great video! Very informative and easy to follow. I have been using fusion 360 to do my modelling but I may try sketch up because of the cut list extension. I have recently discovered your channel and been watching a lot of your older videos. Keep it up! Cheers from New Zealand
Thanks for the comment! For a while I wondered if Fusion360 was going to blow sketchup out of the water but after a little dabble with it I think Sketchup is more suited to a lot of what I do.
That plugin looks ace - I've previously done it all manually as per the first part of the demo, but colouring all of the parts distinctly. It's a pain to rotate them all and then try and figure out the optimal layout on the sheet. This plugin looks like it will save me loads of time, thanks!
Exactly what I do too! This should streamline things greatly!
Great video Alistair, really like the plugin so going to have a play around with that today.
Keep me posted on the workshop move, will see if we can work something out (about to return from furlough to the day job).
darren green thanks for staying interested in helping Darren that will be good don’t worry I’ll be in touch when we’ve got a plan
Thanl you, Alastair! This is godsend for me now! So much helpful.
Glad it helped!
Alistair, you are my absolute hero, I've used this for a bookcase this morning and in ten mins I know exactly how many sheets I need. if only i could get more fitted furniture work but I'm very poor at self promotion.
Glad to hear this!
As always a good video
Very helpful, thank you!
What a great plug-in, I've been using the standard CutList one and find it puts parts on a new board when there's half full ones. This one looks amazing.
Scott Dimelow yeah that was the only one available for a few years, if we’re talking about the same one - it wasn’t terrible but an ugly interface compared to this one and it relies on tagging component names with material words rather than using fills which is more elegant and easier to change
@@Alastair_Freebird Yeah the one you showed in the extension manager, did the job just about. I've just tried open cut list, it's absolutely amazing! Being able to add a scribing allowance by using a specific material is just excellent. Thanks for sharing.
extremely helpful
great!
Thanks Alistair Great tutorial, no longer drawing lines on paper for me.
Good walk through! Thanks Al
I’m glad you found it helpful thanks for commenting
Good guide thanks. I currently use the original Cutlist you mention but do find it a bit clunky. This looks far better! I've just downloaded it and will give it a spin.
Glad you found it helpful
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing and talking us through this. I'm only a diyer but love sketchup.
Not sure if i'm missing something, but I am designing some outdoor steps from chunky 150mm x 150mm treated timber. Using the sectional timber setting you can't seem to be able to define a length, as in the size the timber comes in e.g. 3.6m. You can only define the cross section, is that correct? What i have done as a work around is use the sheet goods settings and dimension the thickness as 150mm and panel size and 3600mm x 150mm. Would like to do this properly though!
Don't know if you ever got this figured out, but in case you still haven't, if you set it to dimensional lumber, you can set the cross section along with all different lengths it may come in.
Estimado Alastair, creo que es la parte 5 no la 6, me equivoco o es que soy incapaz de encontrar la parte 5? Por otra parte, excelente trabajo y muchas gracias
Very nice tutorials. Thank you for sharing!
Juno's - Cabinet Workshop you’re welcome and thanks for the comment
@@Alastair_Freebird I just discovered you can specify the edging of every part in the diagram and the cut list using this extension :)
This is very helpful in nesting because I make a lot of cabinets it's too hard to identify the parts where to put the edging
drive.google.com/file/d/1_EEJXQj2zIINDjVNL9KK_JBy2-f0FSnA/view?usp=sharing
drive.google.com/file/d/1K6LTnzcVvFS4L_BbmbGnAtfhxBk7D9Ve/view?usp=sharing
That’s great, I must explore that more!
I am in already brother....
Sir This is really helpful video, thank you🙏
You’re welcome 👍
Great tip on the plugin. Noticed that when you create an object that’s the same size and snapping to an existing object, and you just want to specify the width (like the plinth) you don’t need to type in both measurements. If you have already snapped to one measurement, then just type “comma second dimension” like this - ,18
In your example, you wanted to draw an item that was 582,18 and sketch up had already snapped to the 582 measurement, so just type in the measurement you want, by using a comma which says to sketch up “keep the dimension as calculated” and then just use the dimension I typed after the comma
It works the other way to, so if your second measurement had snapped, then you would just put your first measurement in, then a comma then nothing.
Prob not explaining it very well but saves a bit of time
Richard Orton thanks for that - I do understand what you mean and someone else pointed this out to me once but force of habit seems to have made me forget to start doing it that way!
hello. unfortunately materials section is full of ALL materials in my project (like 50). I HAVE to delete all but one that i need. is there a solution not having to delete 50 materials one by one?
Hello Alistar are you still purchasing a cnc ? I’m looking at the yeti smart bench or importing from China
Good Job!
Thanks 👍
Thank you Alastair. I know you’ve invested in Sketchup pro. Does pro come with a cutlist function or do you use the latter plugin that you have highlighted? Carpenta.
Michael Crosby it doesn’t come with any extra in built CutList function! I use a paid extension called cabinetsense. That gives you a library of lots of editable cabinets, and more advanced cutlisting functions but it all relies on an additional program called CutList plus for that which is also paid so it gets expensive.
@j Johnson, can please tell me how to set holes in Opencutlist? ....Or Does not Opencutlist support holes....?
Hi it sounds like you are looking for something more like CabinetSense: czcams.com/video/WIyRCnYMO-A/video.htmlsi=RcaFWLcobYhaFJId
Hi Alastair!
Amaizing work, thanks for all of this! Also, ive been folowing the series, and noticed that sketch up make is no longer available, would you consider adding the download in your membership? Its daunting downloading it from a random website :/
Hi thank you for this feedback. It has been on my mind to do an update to this series showing the latest versions of SketchUp but I haven’t found the time. I’d be reluctant to officially sanction still using SketchUp Make as it is no longer supported and I think it would be better to use SketchUp free online, and then transition to purchasing SketchUp pro, which for what it can do is quite good value for a cad program
Hey thanks for the video...but I'm having a problem to setup deferent sizes with the same components
If you copy and alter a component they remain linked like clones, you may need to right click and select ‘make unique’ to avoid problems
Is there a way to create a cut list for offcuts? i.e. I have 3 sheets of different sizes in 18mm mdf, and I want a cutlist for all my 18mm components spread over the 3 sheets.
I don't regularly use this plugin now since using CabinetSense. But I know that you can specify the board sizes available for a given material. so you could experiment with punching in those offcut sizes.
Great series of vids for Sketchup. I have decided to design and build my own studio furniture on the strength of this. Question regarding this add-on programme; can you factor in an allowance for edging when calling off panel sizes?
Gravity Music UK yes I think that option has been expanded with a recent update, I’ve been meaning to check it out but haven’t got round to it yet!
@@Alastair_Freebird i have seen the option and I am trying to figure out how it works. not getting there yet. would like to have it mark on the cutlist which edges that will get edge banding. in the materials there is a edge banding option (instead of solid or sheet). and an option to mark for it to "remove for edge banding". trying to figure it out but not getting it to work. because you don't want to edge all sides all the time......
@@Alastair_Freebird would love a tutorial on how to get it working. now the cutlist is not really ready from the program :). especially when sending it of to some one else that is doing the cutting and edging.
@@bengtssontypee I’m still alternating between this relatively simple cutlisting program and the more elaborate Cabinetsense extension for sketchup. I did get the scribe function working in open CutList and it worked pretty well but as I type this I’m away from the computer and can’t remember enough to describe it, except that I think it was in a dialogue box accessible per part in the list within the open CutList window
@@Alastair_Freebird I have actually found a video in spanish that uses the edge banding function. see the video here czcams.com/video/CLakxzqhbSo/video.html . When I watched this I understood how to "apply" the edgebanding. step 1. make the sheet in final dimension. in the materials tab add a material that is defined as edge banding (without being applied to the drawing). step 2. after generating the parts list , click edit the part the you like to have edge banding on. in the editing options there is tab "edge banding". from there on its very easy to understand how to add edge banding. the guys I get help from just told me that they router away the thickness of the edge banding in the edge banding machine. so they needed finished dimensions anyway :). but hope this helps you and some one else! everybody - don't forget to donate to the guys behind open cut list :) its been very helpful for me!
I'm in a situation where the cut diagram is overly complicated for a track saw. Looks like they designed it for cnc without cnc output. I tried their medium widthwise option but still get some areas that are jam packed. Do you actually use the cut diagram to make cuts. What process do you use since it doesn't output a cut table.
I have occasionally used this plugin; more often a separate program called CutList plus. That allows settings to prioritising long cuts
@@Alastair_Freebird i have tried cutlist fx. It gives you good long cuts but doesn't help you after that. I want to know step by step cutting instructions. I don't see where cutlist fx provides such a feature. Only the free cutlist optimizer outputs a cut table .
Hello, is there a Turkish menu option in cabin design software
I don't know, please contact the opencutlist team direct
Hi Alastair, seems like support for extensions has stopped for the free version now! 😢
Would you know of a workaround by any chance…?
David
Oh is that right, you can’t use extensions at all on the free version? I don’t know a workaround. Except paying for the Pro version of course!
@@Alastair_Freebird
I was afraid you were going to say that..!
Thanks for taking the time to reply 👍
I really want to use descriptions instead of tags on the parts during generating Cutting Diagram. Is there any way to do it? If it can be changed, I really thank you very much🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Sorry I'm not sure!
i have sketchup 2017 make and it is saying it is not compatible with my version
We may be reaching the point where sketchup make 2017 is too out of date. If you are at the point of wanting to make cutting lists I suggest you consider getting sketchup pro.
extension developers are notorious for creating ugly UIs. But this one looks very well thought out. This and profile builder have excellent UIs.
Hi, MySchizo Buddy, as creator of it I'm happy to read that you appreciate OpenCutList UI :)
Cutlist optimizer is another good cut list software
Martin O is that the $19.99 paid one? Can you tell us more about it or link to a good into video? Does it have any particular advantages over open CutList?
@@Alastair_Freebird If its the same Cutlist Optimizer that I know. Its a free website, the big down side is you need to put the dimensions in manually.
Freebird Interiors hi the one i use is a free version i found on google. You put the cut sizes you need and it will tell you how to get maximum use of the sheet. You can colour code the cuts and also allow for grain pattern if needed. Hope it helps if not i will try email you a link
Oh yes I have seen it but I would say you don’t need it if you use the open CutList shown in this video which automates things out of the 3D model, and also you can type extra part sizes in if you want
See what you mean now yeah looks good
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It only makes cuts. But do not drill.
There are programs that automatically tell you where the hole should be, it calculates automatically. But here it's just a drawing.
Yes we use CabinetSense for CNC. But there is always a tension between features and ease of use. Open Cutlist is a good choice for workshops with a panelsaw and no CNC
Non è affidabile....purtroppo
Well too complicated for a dinosaur like me ! There are loads of out here that are really very good at what we do but just hate computers! And as soon as it starts to get complicated I’ve lost interest and I just go back to the way I’ve always done it and just draw it out
There must be something for technophobes like me some thing really easy
There are CutList apps that you just have to type part sizes into