Creating Cutlist‐friendly Designs
As discussed in the Introduction, because the cutlist is generated automatically from your project, you need to design it in a way that makes extracting the parts and calculating their sizes easy.
Specifically, each axis corresponds with the part's dimensions:
| Axis | Dimension |
|---|---|
| X | Length |
| Y | Width |
| Z | Thickness |
Here's an example Parts Studio with all the parts laid out and orientated with the correct axis:
You don't have to label the parts like I did in the above screenshots, but notice how they're all long parts laid flat horizontally. That's what you have to do.
If you plan on gluing up multiple boards into a thicker or wider board, don't design it as a single part. Instead, decide on board sizes used in the glue-up ahead of time, and use multiple parts, one for each peice of wood in the glue-up, just like you will in the real world.
Onshape Custlist Generator works using assemblies. That means to generate a cutlist, you have to assemble your design using your parts. You can use assemblies and sub-assemblies, rectangular patterns, all parts will be included in the cutlist.
The BOM you see on https://cutlist.aklinker1.io corresponds with the flat BOM available in Onshape.
By default, parts do not have materials, and will show up as "Unknown" in https://cutlist.aklinker1.io. Materials are assigned in Onshape, and read when generating the cutlist.
To assign a material to a part, right click the part and select "Assign Material".