Cut List Calculator

Give this a list of the pieces you need and the length your stock is sold in, and it works out how few sticks the job can be done in and which pieces come off each one. It handles a list of different lengths rather than one length repeated, charges the saw kerf between every pair of pieces plus the cut that frees the drop, and reports the offcut you are genuinely left holding. A second tab runs the same list against several stock lengths so you can see which one wastes least and which costs least, because those are not always the same. It is one-dimensional, so it suits boards, trim, tube, pipe, rebar and extrusion but not sheet goods.