Cut sizes

A configurator made part can have cut pieces: pieces cut to a length (and width) from a stock product, such as sides cut from a bar or an infill cut from a sheet. A product’s cut size says what one of it is, so the pieces’ share of it can be worked out.

Set a cut size

Open the product and its Stock tab. The Cutting card has:

Field	What it’s for
Cut length	A bar’s length, or a sheet’s.
Cut width (sheets)	A sheet’s width. A sheet needs its length too.
Waste allowance	A percentage added to what the pieces use, for kerf and offcuts. Blank is none.

Lengths are in the cutting unit, shown after each figure. Select Save cutting. A figure that can’t be used (0 or less, more than 1,000,000, or more than 4 decimal places) is highlighted with the reason.

Only stock items and assemblies have a cut size. Changing it needs permission to change products.

What a cut piece uses

A cut piece without a width is measured against the cut length; one with a width, against the length × width. For example, two sides of 2,060 mm from a 6,000 mm bar use 2 × 2,060 ÷ 6,000 = 0.6867 of a bar. An infill of 2,000 × 800 mm from a 2,500 × 1,250 mm sheet with a 10% allowance uses 1,600,000 ÷ 3,125,000 × 1.1 = 0.5632 of a sheet.

Tip

A product stocked by a unit of length or area, such as metres or square metres, doesn’t need a cut size: its unit is used instead, so 2,060 mm of a product stocked by the metre is 2.06. The card says so.

One size per product: a 3 m and a 6 m bar are two products.

Check rules on a configurable product reports a cut piece whose product has no cut size and isn’t stocked by a length or area, and a configuration shows the same as a problem, such as Rail stock has no cut length.