Just my humble opinion but, SU canâ€™t be beat for ease of use and versatility in design. If you have not heard of it here is the link. I have been using Cutlist Plus for years now and canâ€™t imagine life with out it. I have only used it as an import tool for Cutlist Plus though. These complex joints can be created quickly with just a few of SUâ€™s powerful tools.Īs far as take offs and layouts the plugin I posted earlier seems to do a good job. Custom spaced dove tails, sliding dove tails, haunched tenons, even pin and crescent joints(Knapp joints), your imagination is the only limiting factor. SketchUp allows you to create any edge profile or joinery you can imagine. Matches on these (even partial matches) will cause Components to be kicked out of the board list into the hardware and sheet goods lists.Looking at the Sketchlist websites, this program seems a little limiting. Be sure to edit the lists of “Part Words” and “Sheet Material Words” to match the sort of names you use.CutList’s output is organized according to these names, and names such as SketchUp’s automatic “Component#23” really don’t help you!

Use meaningful Component and Material names.That is one thing that CutList Bridge 4 handles better (with more setup work by you to designate the directions). Note, however, that the existing version of CutList is somewhat stupid about what it considers to be length, width, and thickness - basically the largest dimension is always “length”, the next biggest is “width”, and the smallest is “thickness”. If you don’t do this, CutList will report distorted dimensions for the part. For example, a board should have one axis pointed along each of the three edges at a corner. Make sure to set the axes of each Component to create a tight bounding box around the Component.When Components are nested, the outer levels in the nesting are considered to be “subassemblies” and only the innermost Components will be treated as parts.Not everybody agrees, but in my mind Components have several advantages and no significant downsides. You must make each distinct part of your model into one or the other of these.

It deals exclusively with Components and Groups.

Some tips regarding use of the CutList extension:

Cutlist plus for sketchup