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Your first cut list in 5 minutes.

Start with an empty project and finish with a cut list you could take to the saw: a 1000 mm wardrobe with two doors and three shelves, every part sized, laid out on boards and ready to print. Four steps, each with a picture of where to tap and a short clip. Then do it yourself in the app on this page.

5 min readUpdated 24 October 2026

At the end you'll have

  • 11 parts, each with its size, board and edges
  • The parts laid out on 5 boards of 2440 × 1220
  • A cut list to print, and the Excel file for a cutting company

  1. Step 1

    Add a wardrobe

    On Build, tap Add unit and pick Wardrobe. Type 1000 for the width and leave the height at 2100 and the depth at 600. On the Front step pick 2 doors: CabinetOS shows each door's size straight away, 1997 × 496. Tap Next through Inside, Build and Sides, then Add unit.

    1. Doors: 2. One door this wide would get a warning.
    2. Each door's size, worked out as you type: 1997 high, 496 wide.
    3. Next: on through Inside, Build and Sides, then Add unit.

  2. Step 2

    Open the cut list

    Tap Cutlist. Every part of the wardrobe is there with a code, its size, the board it's cut from and which edges get edge banding: 11 parts in all. The sides are 1964 mm long and the shelves 960 × 580. The line at the top adds it up: the boards you need and 18.78 m of edge banding.

    1. The totals: boards, how well they're used and the metres of edge banding.
    2. Each part has a code (1H is the doors). The same code is on the board layout.
    3. Edge banding: L1 and L2 are the long edges, W1 and W2 the short ones. Doors get all four.

  3. Step 3

    See it on boards

    Tap Optimise. CabinetOS lays the parts out on 2440 × 1220 boards, allowing for each saw cut and a trim at the edges. This wardrobe comes to 5 boards. Tap a sheet at the top to see what's cut from it.

    1. How to lay them out: Least waste is the one to start with.
    2. How many boards to buy.
    3. Each part on the board, with its code from the cut list.

  4. Step 4

    Print it, or send it

    Tap Exports in the menu, open the Cutlist tab, then the Export button. Print cutlist puts the 11 parts on paper with their sizes and edges. The Excel file is laid out for a cutting company, so they can cut and edge it for you. The bar above the cut list is Check before you cut: it looks over the job for things worth a second look, such as long shelves that may sag.

    1. Export: everything you can print, share or download.
    2. Print cutlist: the parts with sizes and edges.
    3. The Excel file a cutting company takes, with every edge listed.

How CabinetOS worked it out

Nothing is guessed. Every size comes from the sizes you typed and a few fixed rules, the same for every wardrobe, in 18 mm board.

Sides

The height, less the 100 mm plinth, less the top and bottom that sit over the sides.

2100 − 100 − 18 − 18 = 1964

Doors

The box is the height less the plinth. Doors stop 3 mm short at the top; two doors share the width, 4 mm off each.

2100 − 100 − 3 = 19971000 ÷ 2 − 4 = 496

Shelves

The width between the sides, 2 mm short at each side. The depth in front of the 18 mm back, 2 mm in from the front.

1000 − 18 − 18 − 2 − 2 = 960600 − 18 − 2 = 580

Edge banding

On the front edge of the top, bottom, sides and shelves, and on all four edges of each door.

18.78 m

Every rule, drawn: how CabinetOS works out the sizes

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