What follows reflects what is currently planned and may change before release. Nothing in this list is available to use today.
Cutting plans for flat sheet stock — metal sheet, MDF, plywood, glass, acrylic and similar panel materials.
Rectangular panel parts arranged across available panel sizes, mixing panel sizes the way the 1D optimizer already mixes stock lengths.
Parts laid out to minimize offcut area, respecting practical cutting-method constraints.
The same reporting the 1D optimizer gives today — what became parts, what is left, and what that leaves usable — measured by area rather than by length.
Both are the same idea — fit demand onto supply with the least waste — but adding a second axis changes what the solver has to search.
In 1D, a bar is a line. A cutting pattern is an ordered list of lengths, and the only leftover is the tail at the end of the bar.
In 2D, a sheet is an area. Parts have width and height, they can often be rotated, the offcut is a shape rather than a length, and the way the panel saw physically cuts constrains which layouts are even possible.
That is why 1D shipped first and 2D is still in development — the layout problem is significantly more complex, and a nesting result that ignores how the saw actually cuts is not worth returning.
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Two-dimensional (2D) cutting optimization, also called sheet nesting or panel cutting optimization, decides how to arrange rectangular (or more complex) parts across sheet or panel stock — such as metal sheet, MDF, plywood, glass or acrylic — so that the fewest sheets are used and the least material is wasted.
Not yet. 2D sheet and panel optimization is in development and is not currently available. Barcut Pro’s 1D cutting optimizer (for bars, profiles and linear stock) is live and free to try today. Leave your email below and we’ll send one notification when 2D ships.