MDF and panel cutting calculator
MDF, particleboard or panel cutting calculator: enter your part sizes and see how many sheets you need and the estimated waste. Free; the calculation runs in your browser.
Result
- Estimated sheets
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- Estimated waste
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- Area used
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This is an approximate estimate based on a simple shelf layout. The real cutting plan comes from moducut nesting, based on part sizes, grain direction and cutting settings.
See the real plan with moducutHow do you calculate MDF and panel cutting?
- A 10 mm edge trim is deducted from every side of the sheet; what remains is the usable area.
- Parts are sorted from largest to smallest and laid out on the sheet in shelves, with a kerf left between them; both shelf directions are tried and the one that needs fewer sheets wins.
- Waste is the share left over when the net area of the parts is subtracted from the total area of the sheets used.
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Frequently asked
questions
It places parts with a simple shelf method, so it is an approximate estimate. For the exact number of sheets you need a cutting plan in which every part is placed individually.
A cut list optimizer is a tool that places a list of parts on sheets with as little waste as possible. This calculator lays the parts out with a simple shelf method to estimate the number of sheets; for a part-by-part cutting plan, moducut’s nesting feature is used.
Common MDF and particleboard sheet sizes are 2100 × 2800 mm and 1830 × 3660 mm; furniture carcasses are mostly 18 mm thick. Confirm the exact size with your supplier.
Place parts together, allow parts to rotate on sheets without a grain pattern, and use offcuts in later jobs. moducut nesting places all the parts of a project on the sheets together and fills offcut panels first.
