Pre-Cut Optimizer 4.6

Pre-Cut Optimizer by RIGOTECH is a cutting-plan optimization solution that helps manufacturers, fabricators, and shops get more from every sheet, panel, or bar. It turns your cut list into highly efficient layouts that minimize waste, shorten saw time, and improve cost control—while respecting real-world constraints like kerf, grain direction, rotations, edge allowances, and safety margins.

Built for wood, metal, glass, plastics, and composites, Pre-Cut Optimizer streamlines the entire workflow: import your parts, optimize with advanced nesting, manage stock and remnants, then output clear, shop-ready diagrams, labels, and reports. It’s easy to learn, fast to deploy, and powerful enough for demanding production environments.

Key capabilities:

• Advanced nesting for sheets and linear materials (panels, bars, pipes, profiles)
• Grain, rotation, and edge-banding allowances with customizable kerf
• Mixed sheet sizes, priorities, and optimization goals (yield, time, or tool changes)
• Stock and remnant management with automatic reuse to boost material yield
• Step-by-step cutting diagrams, part labels, and color-coded layouts
• Import from CSV/Excel cut lists; export reports and diagrams (PDF/DXF options)
• Interactive manual adjustments with instant recalculation of yield and waste
• Cost and material usage summaries for quoting and job tracking
• Inch/metric units, rounding rules, and safety offsets for shop accuracy
• Role-ready for small shops to larger teams with consistent, repeatable results

Pre-Cut Optimizer helps you deliver more parts, with less scrap and fewer re-cuts—so your jobs ship faster and your material budget goes further.

Pre-Cut Optimizer is developed by RIGOTECH. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 1.2, 3.3, 4.2, 4.3 and 4.6. The names of program executable files are PCO.exe, PreCut.exe.