I’ve written in the past about the very handy CutList and Materials plugin. The author has been busy during his southern hemisphere winter making some modifications and additions. Today he announced the release of version 4.1.1.
Most of the changes are under the hood to speed things up and improve printing. He’s also added an option to sort the cutlist by sub-assembly. A sub-assembly is a nested component one level up from the lowest level of components. The layout section also handles saw kerfs now which was commonly requested option.
Here are a couple of shots of the interface.
I’ll do an in depth blog post about using this very handy tool in my next blog post. In the mean time you can download the new version from this link. If you have the previous version already, remove all of it from your Plugins directory. There should be a folder called cutlistui and a file called CutlistAndMaterials.rb. The new version uses an entirely new structure and so the old won’t be overwritten by the new.
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I am unable to get it to work. I keep getting errors that no such file exists.
Carl, it sounds like you haven't installed the plugin correctly. PLease e-mail me and I'll help you out. Click on my name at the end of the blog post to e-mail me.
Carl, I got your e-mail and attempted to reply. Your e-mail is setup to reject e-mails from my e-mail address domain.
Hi
I just get cutlist and would like to use it for my first project on sketchup. I'm looking on Internet to get a good tutorial to use it where can I find it?
Daniel
Hi Daniel, did you try the next blog post?
https://www.finewoodworking.com/item/31860/cutlist-411-a-more-in-depth-look
Thank you very much Dave. I think I want faster than I should. I'll slow down and try more thing before going ahead.
Thank again.
Daniel
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