Actually, term we use hereafter "Material Length" may be associated either with a real Length of, say, stock bars, profiles, pipes, wood boards / beams, which have to be cut to produce different ordered parts, or with actual total Width of stock rolls, which have to be cut to produce different more narrow rolls (1D cutting cases), as well as associated with the container to load Weight (1D packing case), or any other measure of limited capacity. 

Typically, optimizer reduces stock material waste by a factor of 5 - 15 (from about 10% to about 1%) with respect to manual cut planning. Program run time is about 1 - 100 seconds on a Pentium-166 PC, depending on the number of items involved. Any case it saves time and reduces a level of experience required for cut planning significantly. 

Using this page, you can simply put together stock or piece sample items and copy them directly into the Task Page tables in order to process in a current task, as well as subtract (write off) items being used in an accepted solution from the inventory lists and return back reusable pieces.

Note that 1D Stock Cutter is intended for optimizing cutting of a large number of pieces having mostly different sizes, as well as groups of identical pieces, and using uniform stock lengths, as well as any variety of different stock lengths. 

The program supports network data sharing, has full data import / export capabilities via common text files (adjustable format), as well as full capabilities for printing solution reports, layout charts and piece labels in both decimal and fraction formats.