PaneCutter

If you have a DIY home redesigning project in mind that involves furniture or other products made from wood, metal, glass and other sheet materials, it's a good idea to get help with the cutting process. Otherwise, you mind end up ordering wrongly measured panes that have already been paid for.

PaneCutter is a simple-to-use Windows application that can give you a hand in this regard. It's specially developed for panel cutting optimization and cutting plan design, which is practical for both professional manufacturers and amateurs.

Installing this program isn't necessary because it comes wrapped in a portable package. Plus, it has a really small size. You can keep it stored on USB flash drives with limited storage and seamlessly launch it on any PC without setup and without having to copy it to the hard drive.

As far as the interface is concerned, PaneCutter stays true to its purpose, adopting a wood theme. You can input the pane width and height right away in the main window, as well as specify the width of the saw. The width and height can be inverted if you permit part rotation.

You can add as many individual parts as you want to the list, replace values if you change your mind, remove any entries from the list, or toggle decimal and fractional mode. The calculation results can be observed in another window, where each pane is numbered. Plus, the order of the panes should give you a better idea of the whole construction design.

There are multiple models taken into account by PaneCutter when it comes to the order of the panes. You can also view their dimensions in the design and print each pane of just the current one. The list of individual parts can be printed, too. Meanwhile, the project can be saved to file and later opened to pick up where you left off.

Although the application hasn't received updates for a pretty long time, it works smoothly with newer Windows implementations, including Windows 10. We haven't experienced any issues during our tests.

Thanks to its intuitive interface and options, PaneCutter can become a reliable assistant to anyone interested in carefully measuring panels for furniture building projects.