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Use “Copy” rather than “Mirror” or “Copy New” when duplicating components.

Component names are important, they become the panel labels in the cut list so meaningful names are recommended.

Getting the BOM out of Fusion…ĭesigning an item with a view to BOM production has a few “gotchas” of its own as I discovered to my cost – it took a number of iterations of both the Fusion design and BOM export to get the result I wanted.ĭownload the Fusion file if you wish to follow along… There are a few tricks to getting good results, but that’s what this article is about. But how to get a well laid out cut list for the tweaked design?Īs it turns out this was really easy, Fusion can export a BOM as a CSV with a free plugin from GitHub and with a little gentle persuading Cutlist Optimizer can import them. While looking at workbench designs for my soon-to-be-built space I stumbled on Suso’s Modular Workbench over at PS Woodworking ( well worth a visit – Suso has some really cool woodworking projects for the workshop) which I really liked but wanted to “fiddle with”, so I recreated it in Fusion 360. I found Cutlist Optimizer a while ago whilst designing my new workshop (also in Fusion 360 – trust me Fusion is not the best tool for designing buildings even wooden ones!).

This article grew out of my experiences with BOM’s, cut lists, and sheet fitting solutions for me to use as a “Hobby Woodworker”. Those of you who read the PDO Community Fusion 360 Q & A may have spotted BOM’s – Am I missing something? The original question triggering my foray into BOMs and Panel Cutting. I was trying to figure out if there was a possibility of an "automated" way of doing this.Featuring the Fusion 360 BOM & Cutlist Optimizer … Honestly, I do this all by manual labor of using a calculator next to me with all my Piece sizes & QTY. There were also a couple of (not free) excel add-ins that also claimed to solve cutting stock problems.

I found an inexpensive iphone app, a few PC downloads, and a few online calculators all claiming to solve cutting stock problems. I haven't looked at it, so I can't vouch for the quality of the spreadsheet.Īre you required to program your own solution from scratch? If you just need a solution, I might suggest that you put something like "cutting stock calculator" into your favorite search engine.

That might help you see how a spreadsheet might be arranged. This page: has an example spreadsheet for 's cutting stock problem (and other common problems). Do you have previous experience solving the cutting stock problem, or are you also new to the general problem (not just the Excel implementation of the problem)? A challenging programming problem for a beginner.