Offcut management that turns waste into stock
The board left over from this kitchen is the drawer bottoms for the next one, if you can find it and trust its size. Cutzilla flags the offcuts worth keeping and puts them back on your cut list as real stock.
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Why does offcut management save real money?
Offcut management saves money because a usable offcut is board you have already bought. Cut the next job's small parts from it and you skip a fresh sheet, so the leftover stops being a cost and starts being stock.
Stood in a corner with no record, an offcut is just clutter that quietly becomes a reason to buy another full board. You cannot cut from a piece you cannot find or measure. That is how most shops lose the saving: not at the saw, but in the weeks between jobs when a good half-sheet turns into scrap by neglect.
Cutzilla closes that gap. It measures the leftover on every layout, flags the pieces big enough to become real parts, and keeps them as sized stock you can pull onto the next cut list. Waste you used to throw away becomes margin you keep, on the same jobs and the same saw. To see how tighter layouts leave fewer, larger offcuts in the first place, read how to cut plywood waste on a cut list.
From cut list to clean cuts in minutes
No setup, no spreadsheets to wrangle. Enter your parts and let the algorithms do the packing.
Add your sheets & parts
Type them in or import a CSV. Set kerf, grain direction and stock sizes — Cutzilla remembers your common materials.
Run the optimisation
Pick an algorithm or run both. In seconds Cutzilla compares the layouts and selects the one that wastes the least.
Cut with confidence
Follow the visual sequence, print labels for each piece, and export PDF, SVG or CSV. Done before the kettle boils.
How do offcuts become usable inventory?
Offcuts become inventory when each keepable piece is measured, labelled, and logged, so the next cut list can draw on it before it reaches for a full sheet.
Cutzilla does the measuring as part of the layout, so you are not guessing whether a piece is worth the shelf space. You cut the job, mark the flagged keepers, and they go on your stock list at their real size. Next time you plan a run, those offcuts are candidates the optimiser can place first, so small parts land on board you already own and full sheets are only bought for what genuinely needs them.
That is the difference between a pile of "might be useful one day" and a stock list you actually cut from. For the day-to-day habit of storing and reusing them, read how to turn workshop offcuts into usable stock, see how offcut detection sits in the wider workflow on the features overview, or how offcuts feed your wider woodworking inventory.
Cutting optimisation is free. You pay for the paperwork.
Layout quality is never the thing we hold back — both algorithms, grain direction and multi-sheet layouts are on every plan, including Free. Paid plans add the exports, labels and business tools around them.
- 5 optimisations a day
- 2 projects and 2 materials
- Both algorithms, compared on every run
- Grain direction and multi-sheet layouts
- Offcut tracking
- PDF and image exports (watermarked)
Just one job? A Project Pass unlocks a single project for $9
- Unlimited projects, materials and optimisations
- Clean exports with no watermark
- SVG, CSV and G-code downloads
- Printable part and offcut labels with QR codes
- Everything in Free
- Quoting workspace with labour, markup and tax
- Your logo and colours on every document
- Warehouses, locations, suppliers and price history
- Scan an offcut label to book it back into stock
- Pro Mode optimiser settings
- Everything in Maker
Project Pass — $9, once
One job to get through and no reason to hold a subscription? A Project Pass unlocks a single project completely — quoting, labels and clean branded exports, with unlimited runs on that project. It never expires, and you can apply it to a project you have already started.
Warehouses, suppliers and stock tracking stay on Pro.
5 passes for $35 if you have a few jobs lined up.
Get a Project PassOffcut management FAQ
Offcut management is keeping track of the usable board left over from a job so you can cut it into the next one instead of buying a fresh sheet. Cutzilla flags the offcuts each layout produces that are big enough to keep, records their sizes, and lets them re-enter the next cut list as real, sized stock.
Cutzilla measures the leftover area on each sheet after a layout and flags the pieces above a usable size, so you keep the boards that will become real parts and bin the slivers that will not. You cut, label the keepers, and they are logged against your stock rather than stood in a corner and forgotten.
Cutzilla flags keepable offcuts in the browser on the free plan, so you can see what a job leaves behind straight away. Turning those offcuts into a tracked stock list you pull from on later jobs - including scanning a printed offcut label to book it back in - is part of the Pro plan at $29 a month. Every new account gets 14 days of Pro to try it, with no card required.
No. Cutting a part from a suitable offcut instead of a full sheet is board you have already paid for, so it is margin recovered rather than material spent. The only cost is a moment to label and log the piece, which Cutzilla does the measuring for.
No. It runs in the browser on any device, so you plan cuts and check your offcut stock from the office laptop or a phone at the bench, with nothing to install and nothing to license per machine.
Stop buying board you already own
Flag your offcuts, keep the good ones, and cut the next job from stock you have already paid for.