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Enter the bar and the lengths. The calculation runs in your browser, so the result appears as you type: nothing travels to any server.
Enter a length and a quantity to see the plan.
Enter a length and a quantity to see the plan.
The commercial length your supplier delivers: 6,000 mm is usual for profile and tube, but any length works, and so do inches and feet.
One row per distinct length. The plan recalculates as you type, with nothing to press.
What to cut from each bar, how much is left and where the material goes: pieces, reusable remnant, blade and scrap.
A bandsaw takes between 1.5 and 3 mm per cut. With forty cuts in one bar that is over ten centimetres: enough for the last piece not to fit. Any calculation that ignores the kerf promises a yield the saw cannot deliver. And the cut that separates the last piece from the remnant is a cut too: five pieces are five passes, not four. Here every one is counted.
A metre and a half left over is not thrown away: it goes back on the rack and serves the next job. Mixing it with scrap makes a good plan look disastrous, and it is the difference between believing you lost eleven metres and knowing you have them stored.
Two plans using the same number of bars can leave very different offcuts. Gathering the spare material into a single bar leaves a usable remnant; spreading it across all of them leaves scraps only good for the skip.