Cut List: Named Parts

Named parts, not anonymous rectangles. Give every piece a name as you enter it — Side A, Shelf, Back rail — and the name rides along into the layout, the cut order and the shared plan. At the saw you read a name and a dimension instead of matching a bare number back to a drawing. One project, mixed stock. A real build is not one material. Put red oak, pine and a length of moulding in the same project, give each one its own stock sizes and its own end trim, and let the engine keep them apart. Nothing forces you to build a second list because the thickness changed. Saved cut plans that reopen. Plans live in the app. Close it, come back on Thursday, and the project is where you left it — pieces, stock, blade width and all. Nothing has to be typed twice because an export went blank. Every cut eats the blade. Set the blade width once and the layout accounts for it between every pair of…