I’m curious as to where you got this information. Unless you’re talking about a different CutList extension, that’s actually not true. I’ve been doing plans for woodworking projects for Fine Woodworking Magazine and The Taunton Press for many years and use the CutList extension for every one of them. Not one of those projects gets materials added to them. I add sheet or part words as appropriate to the component definition names and they get sorted correctly.
Again, not true for CutList 4.1. You can add words to the Sheet and Part words sections as you wish and they can be in the name. Here you can see I’ve added words to both the sheet and part words.
This is an example from the model I did for a project for Fine Woodworking showing some of the plywood parts. Notice there are no materials assigned.
