Optimization mode
Two ways of deciding what the log should be cut into. Chosen when a scan is solved.
Documents Log Master 1.04.1 · updated 2026-10-25
Optimize, modes and alternatives
The two modes
Modes
Price-based
default
Uses the product price table as it stands and maximises net value across the whole log. Every offered product competes on price.
Preferred Cant/Sideboard
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Chooses two products and solves for the most value from those two alone. Nothing else is placed, however well it would price. Value decides which of the two becomes the cant.
The choice is offered when the Sawing method in Optimizer Setup is Cant sawing. Under Live-edge there is no prompt: Optimize solves straight away, on the price table as it stands.
Preferred cant and sideboard
Nominates the two products the log should be cut to, rather than letting price alone decide. The prompt reads: Price-based optimization uses the product price table as-is. Preferred Cant/Sideboard uses only two chosen products and gets the most value out of them — nothing else is placed.
Preferred mode
Preferred Cant
2x4 #2
One of the two products. The list offers products that are allowed as a cant in the active product set.
Preferred Sideboard
1x4 #2
The other product. The list offers products that are allowed as a sideboard. The solution uses only these two products and gets the most value out of them; value decides which one becomes the cant.
Optimize
top right
Solves with these two products only.
Cancel
top left
Leaves the mode unchanged.
If neither chosen product can be placed in the log, the optimizer says so, naming the products, rather than falling back to another solution. The active product set needs at least one cant-eligible and one sideboard-eligible product for the prompt to be usable.
Reading the result
A solution produced in this mode carries a PREFERRED badge naming the two products, below the alternative picker. If one of the two products does not appear in the displayed solution because the other won every position, an orange warning triangle appears beside the other warnings. Tapping it reads "The selected cant was not used in this solution.", "The selected sideboard was not used in this solution." or "The selected cant and sideboard were not used in this solution." When the cant pick is the one not used, a message also appears once after the solve, naming it and the product that gave more value alone.
