Cutlist optimizing

Started a small furniture workshop recently with help from my family.

Nothing fancy, just 5 of us including me. Mostly cutting plywood and sheet stuff.

One thing I didn’t really expect was how much material we were wasting just because of bad cut planning.

Like you think it’s fine, then you realize you could’ve fit everything into one less sheet.

We tried doing it by hand but it’s honestly kinda annoying and easy to mess up.

So I ended up putting together a small tool for ourselves to figure out better layouts.

Nothing crazy, just enter the parts and it gives a layout.

It’s been helping us waste less material so far.

Curious how you guys handle this, do you just eyeball it or use something?