Guillotine cutting on panel stock
Guillotine cutting means every cut slices across the full remaining piece, like a series of straight shears. Many table-saw-first shops naturally prefer guillotine-friendly patterns because they are fast and repeatable even if they are not always mathematically perfect.
Why shops care
If you optimize only for theoretical minimum waste but the pattern needs dozens of turns, floor time suffers. Cutlistor focuses on practical documentation you can actually build from.