A free closet and shelving cut list calculator that nests shelves, uprights, and dividers from plywood or melamine sheets with the least waste. Enter your sheet sizes and the parts your closet system or shelving unit needs, and get a cutting layout that minimizes leftover and sheets bought.
🚀 Open the Shelving Cut List OptimizerReach-in closets, pantries, and built-in shelving are mostly long shelves and tall uprights cut from sheet goods. Because those parts are big, a poor layout wastes a lot of expensive material. This shelving cutting calculator solves the two-dimensional cutting-stock problem: it packs every shelf and upright across your sheets to minimize waste, then shows a per-sheet layout you can cut from directly.
From 49 x 97 in melamine you need:
The optimizer nests the uprights and shelves onto as few sheets as possible and shows the leftover on each — so you can plan an extra shelf or two from the offcuts instead of buying another sheet.
Yes. It runs in your browser and is free for everyday closet and shelving cut lists — enter your sheets and parts and get a nesting layout with no sign-up.
Any rectangular sheet — plywood at 4x8 (48 x 96 in), melamine at 49 x 97 in, or particleboard. Enter the sheet sizes you buy and mix them in one optimization.
For paint-grade or unfinished shelving, leave rotation on to pack tighter. For pre-finished melamine or veneer with a visible pattern, turn rotation off so the grain or pattern runs the same direction.
Yes. Enter a price per sheet and choose to optimize for lowest cost instead of least waste — useful when melamine and plywood sheets are priced differently.
