2. Pricing a part: Part costing and the drawing

Open it

On a quote, 📏 Part costing sits next to the AI Assistant.

Fill it in

1. The sheet. Pick it from your stock (lesson 1: it needs its Material filled in), or enter the material, thickness and a price per kg.
2. The drawing. Read a drawing (DXF) fills in the blank size, net area, cut length, pierces and bends from the part's flat pattern. It is read in your browser. Lines on a layer called BEND or FOLD count as bends; dimension, text and border layers are left out. The line under the button says what it read and in what units; a file without units is read as millimetres, and it says so. Blocks need exploding in CAD first.
3. The steps. A Cut is timed from the cut length and pierces at the cutter's speed for that material. A Fold is timed from its bends. A Weld or any other step takes the minutes you type, and is marked as an estimate (~).
4. A finish and any hardware.

Read the price

The table prices every quantity break. For each one:

• Material: the blank's area, divided by your sheet utilisation, plus scrap, at the sheet's price. Only people who can see costs see this figure.
• Each step: its minutes for the quantity, plus setup once, at the centre's sell rate. It is never less than the centre's minimum, and a minimum is marked *.
• Finish at its rate and minimum; hardware at cost.
• Material and hardware carry your margin. The line is never less than your minimum charge, and each unit price is rounded up.

Anything that can't be priced (a thickness the cutter has no speed for, a sheet with no cost, a centre with no rate card) is listed in amber and that break shows no price. Fix the rate and the price fills in.

Add it

Click a quantity break and Add. The quote line is written at that quantity's price, with the whole working kept on the line, and the drawing is kept privately on the quote, never with the files the customer sees.