A cutting table for supporting or suspending plate while being processed by a profile plate cutting machine, includes a modular construction made up from several interlocking and connected components. The cutting table includes supporting frame assembly and sacrificial grid assembly which supports and connects to a sacrificial interlocking grid assembly being removably connected together by slotted connecting means to form the cutting table. The supporting frame assembly includes structural support bar members. The sacrificial interlocking grid assembly includes a plurality of first cross slat elongate members and second cross slat members being slidably interwoven with each other in a slotted type arrangement to form a sacrificial grid of parallel spaced members.; Each of the first cross slats of the interlocking grid members sit directly on and parallel to the planar structural support bar members that can support the heavy loads of the plate being cut.