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cabinet cut list
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I'm going to show you how to create beautiful cut lists like this using a free open source extension for SketchUp Pro called open cut list so you can just go to extensions extension Warehouse search for open cut list and it's this one right here and when you install it you'll see this little tool button toolbar icon right here you click on it and this window will pop up so what exactly does this extension do for you so it will generate a list of every component that either is in the entire model or that you currently have selected and it'll show you the length and width of each of those parts so it only looks at components but you can have components nested into other groups and components so you don't have to change anything about your organizational workflow and what it does is it actually uses material assignments to determine what type of wood or product you need it to you know lay out and measure so it'll give you a cut list like this just showing you all the dimensions but if it is a sheet good it will generate a cutting diagram for you that's kind of optimized and laid out and it's so packed with features it's crazy I mean you can have offsets for like you know if you want to trim you want to account for trimming you know the plywood down all the way around you can do that if you want to have rough dimensions and finish Dimensions you can include additional offsets from your Dimensions it's it's really a great extension and honestly like one of the most well put together extensions I've ever seen for SketchUp never mind a cut list extension but of all extensions the user interface for this extension is just really well done so for a free extension that's open source Source it's really quite incredible so let me show you how a basic workflow would go for setting up a SketchUp model that'll work with this extension okay so again it looks at a components so we'll just want to create a basic component here I'm going to make a sheet that's a 24 by 30 and we will extrude this three quarters of an inch and then I'm just going to Triple click one two three right click make component and we'll just call this panel okay and so in order to get cut list the open cut list extension to recognize this as something you want to have accounted for in the extension you just need to assign a material like a basic SketchUp material to that component so you can just go to your regular you know SketchUp materials panel grab any material and click to apply now once you've done that you just need to kind of configure the material inside of open cut list so you just go to the materials panel here you will see all of the materials in your model now these ones I've already got configured so you see the little icon up here but this one we're just going to click on it and now you can rename it so by default it's just going to show the material name if I want to say that this is Oak plywood I can just type that in there and the type drop down menu will show you all the different options so you can use open cut list to quantify solid wood so that's going to be like rough sawn lumber that you're going to be you know planing down and ripping and really shaping to the Finish size that you want so it's going to allow for accounting for additional thickness so you have that extra material that you can you can plane down and things like that there's also sheet Goods which is what you're going to get your cutting diagrams with dimensional Lumber you can think of that as like you know your typical framing Lumber or if you know you're you're just buying one by Pine material or whatever that you're not going to be planing down and you want to have a cutting diagram for dimensional material where like you're you're not worried about knots or like optimizing the placement of your finished boards manually and you just want to let the extension do that for you you can choose dimensional Lumber and then there are some extra material types here for Edge banding which is a cool feature I'll I'll mention later on and Hardware too so you can even account physically you know have your Hardware in the model and use this extension to account for those as well so in this case we're going to do sheet goods and the thing that's really cool about this extension is you don't have to create redundant materials for every single you know thickness of plywood that you're using so you basically use the material to define the species of the plywood and then you use this window right here to define the different thicknesses in different panel sizes now to go even deeper if you go over to the attributes for pricing you can actually add a price so you can either just do a generic price like by square foot or cubic foot but you can click add a price here and so select a standard size and assign a price to that size so if you have you know quarter inch plywood and half inch plywood you would just select that so like in this case you know with this example is a three quarter inch sheet so we would do three quarter inch sheet and we would say instead of per square foot we would just say per item so for every sheet of three quarter inch plywood let's say we want I'm just gonna throw out a price of you know fifty dollars and and 34 cents and so I can apply that now the cutting parameters there's there's a bunch of other parameters here for like oversizing the length and width and your standard dimensions here now the the plug-ins even sophisticated enough where it'll Orient the grain for you which is really incredible and you can override that like if you have pieces where you don't care what the grain direction is so you can override that as well but let's just click apply and so now we have this material set up in the extension and so what you can do is you can either generate cut lists for just what you have selected or you can do the entire model so let's just select this panel here and we'll go to the parts section of the extension and it's going to detect that our current report does not reflect what we currently have selected so it's just going to prompt us to regenerate so I'll click that and there we go so it's showing us we have our sheet of plywood uh you know it's it's labeled here so it provides a letter to uh to label this specific part and that comes in really handy for the labels so you can actually print labels for all of your parts as well and so if we go to The Cutting diagram and click generate we can see here's the part laid out on one of the standard sheets that we configured when we set up the material and it's just it's awesome this this extension works so well now one tip that's really important when you're using this is you have to pay attention to your axes orientation so the blue red and green axis inside of the component so if I if I go down into this component here and double click we see we have a the blue axis going this way the red axis going this way and the green axis going this way so if we look at this button right here it's going to show us how the extension is treating each axis Direction so the red axis is representing the thickness of the plywood and then you have the green being the length in the blue being the width so this is really important because especially sheet Goods you can't really swap around the thickness to a different axis you know if we had swapped this around the extension is going to think we need to look for a 24 inch thick sheet of plywood which doesn't exist so you do need to make sure that you're orienting your axes properly in SketchUp when you create your components now the plug-in does have a lot of intelligence built in for kind of swapping that for you automatically but if you do need to change that manually all you do is jump inside of the component grab the axis tool here we click at the origin point we want the red to be along the thickness of the plywood and then the green can go down this way and so that works as well so I think I may have just swapped the length and width in this situation but like I said the extension does do a good job of kind of automatically reorienting things for you so let's take a look at this cabinet again I just deleted that panel and I have nothing selected so I can go back to the parts and then click generate and so now it's just going to show me everything in the model and so you can see here I have the face frame is set up as a solid wood and I have these different parameters for the oversize so quarter inch width oversized quarter inch thickness oversized and an inch and a half length oversize so that's going to give me room to cut and plane down the material and if we go to parts here so these are the rift cut Oak parts that are in the model so you see the quantity column right here so face frame frame style end I can highlight it I love this feature right here it highlights the parts right in the model and so it's like you don't even really need to export or print this out you could literally just have SketchUp on a computer in your workshop and use this in the interactive mode to be able to orbit around your model and find the pieces and parts and pieces you need and it shows the label right on the screen down here and you can like Zoom extents to to find it so like if I select a part that I don't exactly know where it is so let's say I highlight those and I'm like down here like I could zoom extents well we have some in the back here so you can actually toggle transparency as well so like if I was back here you toggle transparency and you can see all of the ones that are highlighted so there's just a ton of like really awesome features where you can kind of just use this right in SketchUp without having to to print stuff out but of course you can you can print everything out to PDF or whatever print it out on your printer but going back to the face frame so you'll see since these are set up as rough cut materials we have rough Dimensions shown in red here and then the finished Dimensions shown here and so if we go back down to the plywood here so you'll notice how we have plywood Maple half inch and plywood Maple quarter inch so in this case I actually applied that one material to the parent group that is containing all of these child components so instead of having to apply that material to each sub component I just applied it to a parent group and so that's just one additional way that this extension makes this process a lot easier and kind of more Integra rated into your existing workflow you don't have to kind of change your organizational method to be able to use this extension but notice how I don't have to actually have multiple materials set up for each thickness of plywood I have this one material and just by having the standard thicknesses configured in here I can use this one material definition and have you know different pricing for each one if I wanted to and it'll automatically kind of recognize and organize the different thicknesses automatically and create separate cutting diagrams for them and so we can take a look at the cutting diagram again and if we wanted to we can select a different standard size if we have multiple sizes set up here we can override that we can Define off Cuts we can set the blade thickness the trimming size around the tire perimeter there's different optimization levels there's there's just so much you you can do here once you kind of look at your layout you can kind of recognize like in this case so I have these parts here that are four inches and these parts here that are three inches and so I can kind of take a look and be like you know what if I just increase these by half inch I can kind of standardize all of these parts to be the same size so obviously in addition to just having the ability to create your cut list and optimizations you know being able to kind of identify those those optimizations that you can create manually is really valuable as well so again this is called open cut list it's free and open source I definitely encourage you to donate you can click the sponsor button right down here to you know make a donation to this open source effort they're working on right now creating an SVG export so you can use this with CNC machines so awesome extension I absolutely love it and again if you want to check out my book SketchUp delay layout you can go to SketchUp to layout.com you can find it on Amazon but if you want to buy it from my website you're going to get the paperback with the ebook for free and you can get 10 off by using the coupon 10 off so that's going to do it for this video thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video ...
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