Does it work on a Mac?

Yes. One native build for Apple Silicon and Intel, signed and notarised — no Gatekeeper warnings. This is the single biggest reason shops move to us: if your shop runs Macs, you no longer need a second computer just to cut film.

Will it drive my plotter?

If it speaks HP-GL, almost certainly. Graphtec, GCC, Summa, Roland and Skycut drivers ship with the app, plus a generic HP-GL driver. If your machine is not on the list, tell us and we will write a driver from the manufacturer's manual.

Will it change the settings on my plotter?

No. Force, speed and blade offset stay exactly as you set them on the machine's own panel. We only send geometry. Your condition 3 stays condition 3.

How many computers do I get?

Two. One cutting station wired to the plotter, and one manager's seat at the front desk for laying out and quoting. A second cutting station is available if you run two plotters.

What if the car I need isn't in the catalog?

Request it from inside the app, with year, make, model, trim and photographs. Our designers draw it and it appears in your catalog.

Can I use my own patterns?

Yes. Import your own SVG, edit it, save it to your own library, and cut it. CorelDRAW and SignLab exports read faithfully, including scale and stroke assignment.

Do I need to be online?

To cut, yes — license verification and job logging both need a connection. To lay out, nest, measure and quote, the app just needs to have been online recently.

Do I have to buy your film?

No. Buying HAUT film includes cutting credit, which is the cheapest way to run the software — but the subscription stands on its own.

Is there a free trial?

Ask us. Trials are granted per shop by the back office rather than offered publicly, because every account is approved by a person.

Software for film shops

CUT CORE — PPF pattern software

Open a vehicle, lay it out, cut it. HAUT CUT CORE is a fast native app for Mac and Windows with a growing catalog of ready-to-cut patterns, true-shape nesting that saves real film, and direct support for the plotters your shop already owns.

Download for Mac Download for Windows How to apply

Under 10 MB to install
2,500+ vehicles, growing weekly
Mac and Windows

The problem

The software your shop runs was not built for your shop

It was built for sign makers, and film shops have been living with it for a decade.

A 1.6 GB installer and an afternoon gone

Forty-eight thousand files and six runtime redistributables to get one new machine cutting. CUT CORE is under 10 MB and installs in under a minute.

Windows only

If your shop runs Macs, you buy a PC just to cut film. CUT CORE runs natively on both — one universal build for Apple Silicon and Intel.

Menus full of things you never use

Rhinestone tools, braille, print queues, menu-board wizards. Hundreds of commands, and a film shop uses maybe thirty. Everything a film shop needs. Nothing a sign shop needs.

One desk, one person, one bottleneck

Whoever is at the cutting computer is the only person who can quote a job. Every CUT CORE license includes a second seat for the front desk.

The app

Three screens, and there is nothing else to learn

No modules, no wizards, no second program to learn. The shop opens to its own numbers, finds the car, and cuts it — and every screenshot below is the shipping app, at the size it runs on a shop monitor.

HAUT CUT COREDashboard

The CUT CORE account screen: film used, cuts logged and files opened over the last 30 days, a list of recently opened vehicles, and the billing and film-ordering panel

Film used, cuts logged, files opened and material on hand — the last thirty days of the shop, on the screen the app opens to.
Continue where the shop left off: every file this machine has opened, which library it came from and when.
Renewal date and the billing portal sit beside HAUT film by the roll, each roll listed with the cutting credit it carries.

What it does

Built by people who install film for a living

It saves film on every job

True-shape nesting interlocks parts by their real outline, not their bounding box. On a real delivered kit, a scattered 83.5 × 51.4 in layout packed into 21.6 inches of a 60-inch roll at 78.8 % density in about three seconds.

It nests one part at a time

Right-click a panel, Add to Blank, and it drops into the first real gap on the film — the way a shop works when a customer buys a front end rather than a full kit.

It knows your material

Roll presets fill in the usable width, not the marketing width, so a 60-inch roll gives you 58 inches by default. It warns you a part is too wide before you press Cut, not after the film is spent.

It quotes the job for you

Price List mode measures each part's real enclosed area — not its bounding box, which overcharges every curved panel by half again. On a real kit the first panel measures 0.644 ft² inside a 0.950 ft² bounding box. That difference is your margin.

It speaks your units

Inches or millimeters, square feet or square metres — switch on the status bar and every field, readout and quote follows. Type 3mm into an inch field and it understands you.

It scales to your eyes

Five interface sizes from Small to Maximum — icons, type, rows and fields all scale together. Dark theme, light theme, or follow the system.

It tracks film and cuts

Every cut is booked with the square feet of film it consumed and the linear yards off the roll. The dashboard shows film used, cuts completed and material on hand over the last 30 days.

It updates itself

Signed, verified automatic updates. New patterns, new machines and new tools arrive without anyone reinstalling anything. A package signed by anyone else installs on nobody.

It gets you real support

Help → Diagnostics collects the app's own log, scrubs every credential out of it, shows you exactly what will be sent, and sends it with one line describing what you were doing. Support starts with facts instead of twenty questions.

Nesting

One command, and the kit collapses onto the roll

This is the same file, seconds apart. Left as the catalog delivers it, a kit is arranged in the shape of the car — readable, and hopeless as a cutting plan. Nested, it is a cutting plan.

HAUT CUT COREAs delivered

The CUT CORE editor in the light theme, showing a BMW M5 kit as delivered with the film blank drawn to scale beneath it

A BMW M5 kit straight from the catalog, laid over a 600 × 58 in blank cut from a 60-inch roll.

True shape, not bounding box

Parts interlock along their real outline. A bounding box leaves the space inside every curve unused, and on a bumper that space is most of the part.

Or one part at a time

Right-click a panel, Add to Blank, and it drops into the first real gap on the film — the way a shop works when a customer buys a front end rather than a full kit.

On a real delivered kit

A scattered 83.5 × 51.4 in layout packed into 21.6 inches of a 60-inch roll at 78.8 % density, in about three seconds.

Themes and scale

Readable at the front desk and in the bay at midnight

The front desk works under fluorescents. The cutting station is in a bay at eleven at night. Neither of them should be squinting at the other one's screen.

HAUT CUT CORELight / Dark

The same CUT CORE editor screen in the dark theme, with the pattern drawn in green on near-black

LightDark

The same BMW M5 file in both themes, split down the middle. Drag the handle — or use the arrow keys — to move the join.

Match System, or override it

The app follows the operating system by default. Light and Dark override it per machine, so the front desk can run light while the cutting station runs dark.

Lines: black, or lines: colour

A separate switch decides whether the pattern draws in flat black or in its own colours, so a kit reads against either ground.

Five interface sizes

Small to Maximum — icons, type, rows and fields scale together. Units switch on the same status bar, and every field, readout and quote follows.

The catalog

2,500+ vehicles. 115+ makes. Published weekly.

A catalog is only useful if you can get to the car in front of you. Library → Year → Make → Model, each filter narrowing the next.

Every vehicle carries the layout map — parts arranged in the shape of the car, so an installer sees at a glance which piece goes where — plus a photo of the vehicle. Both open full screen.
Trims, body styles, chassis codes and year ranges are separate fields, so an Audi RS3 Sportback is not the same row as an RS3 Saloon.
Can't find a car? One button files a request with year, make, model, trim and photographs. Our designers draw it and it appears in your catalog.
Files open in tabs. Open the Q7 interior, open the RS4, jump back to the catalog, keep your place.

In the editor

Edge Wrap — our name for the PPF wrap allowance. Pick one edge, several, or a whole contour; set the amount, run-out angle and joint radius. Overlapping allowances never add up.
Slice — a straight cut or a curved arc cut, so a bikini cut across a bonnet and both wings is one continuous line through all three parts.
Cut in Half — one command, no line to draw, exact to a hundred-thousandth of an inch.
Full node editing — marquee a run of nodes, bend a curve by its handle, insert a node where you point, set the start point, reverse the cut direction.
Rulers, guides and a measure tool that keeps every measurement on screen so you can compare them.

Your plotter

Which plotters we have tested on real hardware, and which we have not

Every driver in CUT CORE is written from the manufacturer's own manual and marked with how far we have proved it. Cut one calibration rectangle on your own plotter, type in what you measured, and the app is certified for your machine — measured, not assumed.

Machine	Status
Graphtec FC9000-160	Bench-verified by HAUT on a real machine
Graphtec FC8600-160	Written from the vendor manual
Graphtec CE7000-130	Written from the vendor manual
GCC Jaguar V LX (J5-163LX)	Written from the vendor manual
Summa S3 T160	Written from the vendor manual
Roland GR2-640	Written from the vendor manual
Skycut V60	Written from the vendor manual
Generic HP-GL	Any HP-GL cutter

Nothing but geometry

Pure HP-GL. No G-code, no cutting conditions. Force, speed and blade offset stay exactly where you set them on the machine.

It refuses impossible jobs

A plotter bound to a laser printer queue, a port switched to print-to-file, a part wider than the machine — blocked before the job is logged, not after the film is spent.

Two calibration jobs

A one-inch test square to prove the connection, and a 10 × 6 inch rectangle that proves scale, axis and origin on a machine we have not stood in front of.

Two seats

The front desk quotes while the bay cuts

Every shop license includes 2 machines, and they do different jobs.

The cutting station

The computer wired to the plotter. It cuts. A second cutting station is available for shops running two plotters.

The manager's seat

The front desk. Lay a kit out, nest it, measure it, price it, save it — everything except sending to the blade. Quote a job without waiting for the bay to be free.

Film and credit

Every roll carries its own cutting

A 60 in × 50 ft roll is 250 sq ft of film — and 250 sq ft of cutting credit lands in your account when it ships.

Buy film in the app

60-inch × 50-foot rolls of HAUT PPF, ordered from the dashboard and shipped to your shop.

Cutting credit included

On a $1,250 roll that is $250 of cutting included — a fifth of the price of the roll.

Or buy credit on its own

By the square foot or by the pack, if you cut film you did not buy from us. Balance, history and every cut on one screen.

Pricing

Pay for ten months, run it for twelve

No card is asked for on the application. A shop applies, we approve, and only then does the shop enter payment details.

Monthly — US & Canada

$250

per month

Annual — US & Canada

$2,500

per year · two months free

Monthly — Europe

$150