Quote a part from a photo of the print
Not a STEP file. Not a clean PDF. A photo of whatever drawing is actually sitting on your machine — a formal print, a sketch on graph paper, the customer's fax from 1994. You get the operations, the times and a price you can check line by line.
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A photo is fine. Crooked is fine. Grease is fine.
Why a photo and not a CAD file
Every quoting tool in this industry starts from a file: STEP, DXF, a clean PDF. That works fine when the customer is an engineering department. It does not work when the job walks in as a part in a bag and a sketch, which in a shop under ten people is most of them.
The reason is simple. Reading a drawing is the slow part of estimating, and it is slow whether or not a file exists. Starting from a photo skips the step where you wait for someone to send you geometry that may never arrive.
The estimate you get here is a starting point, not gospel — it says so on every result, and it tells you what it could not read. An estimator who does not tell you what it is unsure about is not being confident, it is being useless.
This is one part. A shop is not.
The full tool keeps your machines and your real rate, prices assemblies — machined parts plus purchased components plus assembly time — and, once you close a job, replaces the estimate with what it actually took. So the next quote is right for reasons that came from your floor, not from a default.
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