Cut list software built into your wardrobe configurator

Closetforge is a white-label 3D wardrobe configurator and quoting software for fitted-wardrobe makers and joinery workshops, and it is also cut list software: every quote it produces comes with the panels to cut, the sheets they come from and the fittings to order, worked out from the design the customer made on your website.

Most cut list tools start after the sale, when someone sits down with the drawing and types every panel in by hand. Here the cut list is a by-product of the design itself. This page explains what you get on each quote, how the boards are counted and billed, and what the tool does not try to be.

From a customer's design to a list of panels

When a customer designs a wardrobe on your site, they are not drawing a picture. They are building a structured design: outer sizes, the boards it is made from, how the inside is divided, and every shelf, drawer, rail and door. The design engine knows the thickness of each board because thickness belongs to the material, so it can work out each panel's real size, not just the outline.

From that, the platform derives the cut list with no typing:

• Carcass panels. Sides, top, bottom and fixed dividers, cut from the body decor.
• Fronts. Door leaves, drawer fronts and the plinth, cut from the front decor at the size they are cut to, which is not the same as the opening they cover.
• Shelves and inner parts. Each shelf at the width between the boards either side of it, not the width of the section on a drawing.
• Backs and drawer bottoms. From the back board your workshop uses, which is a workshop setting rather than a customer choice.
• Drawer boxes. Sides, fronts and backs for wooden boxes. With a metal box system, the sides come as a fitting on the hardware list instead.

Each panel carries its size, its material, how many you need and a reference you can find on the drawing. For a decor with a grain, the list records which way the grain runs on the panel, so the layout can respect it.

The picture the customer sees and the list you cut from are read from the same geometry. If a shelf is drawn at a certain width in the 3D view, it is listed and billed at that width. The two cannot drift apart.

Sheets, nesting and pooling per quote

A cut list on its own does not tell you how many boards to buy. For that, the platform lays the panels out on full sheets of each material, a nesting step, and counts the sheets.

Three rules decide what is billed:

• Sheets are pooled per quote. If a customer orders a wardrobe and a matching top box, the panels for both are nested together on the same sheets, so you are not charged twice for two half-used boards. The cost is then shared between the items by the area each one uses.
• The layout buys the boards. The number of sheets billed comes from the real layout. Your waste allowance for each material still applies as a floor, so a suspiciously tight layout never under-prices the job.
• Oversized panels are split and shown. If a back panel is larger than a sheet, it is split into pieces that fit, and the split appears on the list so nobody discovers it at the saw.

On the admin quote page you can open the cutting diagram: every sheet, every panel placed on it, with the same references as the list. The admin copy of the quote document carries the same diagram, so the screen and the paper agree about which panel goes where.

Edge banding by exposed and inner edges

Edge banding is where hand-made cut lists often go wrong, because not every edge is the same. The platform knows which panel edges a customer will see and which sit inside the carcass.

You set two band thicknesses for your workshop, one for exposed edges and one for inner edges. Every panel edge is then assigned by its role: the visible front edge of a side panel takes the exposed band, the hidden edge of a shelf behind a door takes the inner one, and edges that are never seen get none. The lengths are summed per band and per decor, priced from your settings, and listed so you can order the right rolls.

If a particular job needs something different, you can override the banding on that quote without changing your defaults.

Hardware and accessories on the same quote

A wardrobe is not only boards. The same design produces the list of fittings it needs:

• hinges for each door leaf, soft-close if the customer chose it
• drawer runners or box sets per drawer
• handles, one per door leaf or drawer front, in the style the customer chose
• sliding door gear, tracks and profiles, sized to the leaves
• hanging rails, pull-out rails, lighting strips and other interior fittings
• legs, plinth parts and wall fixings

Each fitting is a row on its own, mapped to a product in your catalogue, with its quantity worked out from the design. Companion parts, such as the plate a hinge needs, appear as their own rows rather than being hidden in a total. If a fitting has no price in your settings yet, the quote is still calculated and shown to you, but it is held back from the customer until you fill the gap or decide to send it anyway. A missing price never goes out as a zero.

Where the lists go

On every quote request you receive, the lists are already there.

• The admin quote document. A PDF for your workshop with the cut list, the hardware and accessory lists and the cutting diagram, next to the price breakdown.
• The admin quote page. The same lists on screen, with the cutting diagram behind a disclosure so it is there when you need it and out of the way when you are reading a price.
• A MaxCut CSV export. One file with the cut list, laid out so it maps onto MaxCut's import, for workshops that plan their cutting there.

The customer gets a different document: their design, the price, your terms. They never see your cut list, your sheet counts or your supplier rows.

What it does not do

The cut list is there to price the job honestly and to save you the evening of typing it in. It is not a workshop production suite.

• The only export is a MaxCut CSV. There is no CNC export, no machine programme and no file for other cabinet design packages. If your saw or router needs its own format, you will still prepare that in the software you use today.
• It does not drive your machines. The cutting diagram is a plan for a person at a panel saw. It is not an optimised programme for a beam saw or a nesting router.
• It does not design kitchens or other furniture. The lists cover wardrobes, because that is all the configurator builds.
• It does not order your boards. It tells you what to order; it does not place orders with a supplier.
• It does not know your offcut rack. Every layout starts from full sheets. If you plan to use offcuts, the sheet count is on the safe side.
• It does not replace checking. It is calculated from the design the customer made. If your survey changes a size, change the design and the list follows; a list printed before the change is out of date.

See a real list before you decide

The fastest way to judge it is to make a wardrobe and look at the parts. Open the live demo, design something awkward on purpose, and ask us to show you the cut list and the sheet layout it produces. Then book a call and we will walk through it with your own boards, band thicknesses and fittings. For the full journey from a customer's design to the quote on your desk, read how it works.