It only supports American sizes! This is an unhappy limitation of the extension and is likely why you seem to be seeing 4 of your board in the output: it is using some American nominal timber, not (as noted earlier) getting any information from the name of the material. When looking at this, I noticed that although the cutting list is right, the CutList extension’s Layout system does not understand metric sized timber, even if the model units are metric. There is no such concept in SketchUp everything is drawn to actual size. The named material does not convey anything to SketchUp or CutList about the dimensions of the raw timber. You have added a brown material and named it “Timber 3600x225x75”, but to SketchUp that is just the name (textual) of a color to paint onto the surfaces of an object. You expect more from a SketchUp material than what it actually does.That means you have either copied the first instance or pulled a second instance out of the components window onto the model view. I see two instances (that is, distinct copies) of a component named “Rail 540x225x75”. The SketchUp view window shows the contents you have created and placed in your model. I don’t know what you mean by “the icon for the component”.Just forging ahead blindly is leading you to frustration! Have you followed the various introductory tutorials available through the help center? There is terminology (much of which is indeed American) and there are concepts to learn before you will make much progress. You seem to be quite confused about how SketchUp works and how to model using it. the supplied timber size of 75x225x4800, but each of the components is smaller, 2440x540mm (naturally), so I thought the Cut List extension would show how many 75x225x4800, I would need, i.e 2 off, but it just shows one part and no cut list ? I see on enity info for the components in the model that the material size for the component is correct, i.e. At the moment I just have 1 material called “Timber 4x2”. I have managed to work out how to place items in the model and create components and attach materials to those components. Very simple stuff and would appreciate very much a kind link to a suitable guide on how to do this or better still some written instruections. Its pretty simple, just a basic model for learning purposes, but I’m struggling with the interface and the terminology, plus its very “American” in its vernacular so thats another hurdle. How do i setup sketchup so that I can create MY OWN parts list for the piece of timber ‘X’ and create a model that uses '‘X’ (cut to the appropriate sizes) to create ‘Y’ and then run off a Cust List so that the quantity of ‘X’ is shown and how to cut up ‘X’.in order to build ‘Y’ In my project i want to create a rectangular frame, sized: (L)2440x(W)540 mm, lets call this ‘Y’ So I have a piece of timber from my supplier, that is 75 x 225 x 4800 mm lets call this ‘X’ I am struggling to make this simple, but I’ll try again another way:. Folks, thank you for the help, but I have no idea what you are talking about.
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