Woodworking Software for Macintosh

[extiger]

Is there anything new out there? I'd really love to have a cut list optimizer.

Gary Curtis

 

[Notorious T.O.D.]

Have you searched the applications section of the Apple website?  I guess that is where I would start, but I am still doing most of my Mac CAD with Vectorworks 8.5 or Minicad...  Not actually the latest and greatest....

Best,
Todd

 

[John Klemm]

I would highly recommend you looking into Google's Sketchup.  I have found the application to be excellent, easy to learn and free to boot.  Additionally, you can find quite a few free lessons on the website but also search youtube and there are numerous training aids within.

Good luck and enjoy.

John

 

[nclemmons]

Google 'Macintosh cut list software" and you'll find a few options that show up including what looks like a possible plug-in for Sketchup.

One I saw was called cabinetcut.com

Another called cabinets-plus.com

good luck -

neilc

 

[extiger]

when I posed this same question about 8 months ago, cabinet cut came up. But a few folks said it was lacking a lot of the features of CutLis Plus for Windows computers.

Realistically, how long would it take to learn enough of Sketchup to do cut lists?

Gary Curtis

 

[fidelfs]

You can start slow with sketchup and in no time you will get really good.  The trick is don't give up, dont' stop.  It is different so you have to pay the price making and effort and time.
Finewoodworking has a good blog from 3 sketchup masters and also http://sketchupforwoodworkers.com/ gives really good tips.

Cut lists is a plug in, so when you finish your drawing you access the menu (within sketchup) for the plug in and then it will create csv files, show on the screen etc.

Have Fun!

 

[jrs]

I use cutlistplus on my mac

I run it under CrossOver (http://www.codeweavers.com/), which is basically a windows emulator (WINE).  You could also run it under VMWare fusion or parallels.

I use sketchup a little too

 

[extiger]

I was considering using the PC version of Cutlist. But when a person uses a Windows emulator, can you print out your results on the MAC?

When I was using Virtual PC on OS9, the bugaboo was that I couldn't print anything.

Gary Curtis

 

[nclemmons]

Parallels for Mac as a Windows emulator allows you to add a printer and print to it.  It can be USB or network connected but uses Windows drivers rather than the Mac drivers.

The same should be true for the other windows tools -

neilc