Frames, trusses, handrails, window profiles — wherever parts are cut at an angle, a wedge of material is left between two mitered ends and usually ends up as scrap. CuttingOpt.Pro arranges the parts so the bevels nest into each other, and shows you how much metal that saved.
▶ Open the calculatorWhen two neighbouring parts have mitered ends with the same slope, the second one can start inside the “shadow” of the first. The length saved per joint is the profile height times the tangent of the angle — for HEA200 at 45° that is 190 mm. The optimizer picks the order and orientation of the parts on every bar and accounts for the kerf along the diagonal.
Every part row has a ∠ icon. It opens a dialog with ready-made shapes (left miter, right miter, trapezoid, parallelogram), a field for any angle from 0 to 89° on each end, the cut direction and a to-scale preview of the part. The profile height is read from the name — HEA200, IPE120, 80x40 tube — or entered by hand.
An I-beam, a tube or a flat bar can be rotated 180° so the bevels match — that is on by default. For an angle, T or Z profile you switch the rotation off for that part only, while the other parts keep nesting freely.
A bar-by-bar layout with the mitered parts drawn to scale, dashed lines at nested joints, stop positions for the saw and a “Saved by nesting” figure. In a sample job of 16 HEA200 parts (5 × 1200 mm with two 45° miters and 11 × 698 mm with one) nesting gave back 1,710 mm of profile. The same goes into the printed workshop document and the Excel export.
Miter cuts with nesting are part of the Pro plan. Straight cutting is free — 10 cut plans a month after registration, printing included.
The long (outer) side of the part — the way the saw measures it. The short side is calculated from the angle and the profile height and is shown in the preview.
Yes — each end has its own angle and direction. A part can have 45° on the left and a straight cut on the right, or 30° and 60°.