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Prototyping and 3D printing

From quote to delivery for prototyping and 3d printing

Price depends on material, infill and print hours, but it is estimated by eye and the margin swings from part to part.

What changes

The part records material, infill, layer height and post-processing.

The hourly rate is per material.

Requoting a repeat part is instant.

Your stages, ready configured

The account starts with these production stages. Change them any time from Settings.

  1. 1Model prep
  2. 2Printing
  3. 3Post-processing
  4. 4Quality control

Every stage records who worked on it, and when.

Production stages configured for prototyping and 3d printing
Production stages configured for prototyping and 3d printing

What it looks like on the shop floor

The operator interface is not the manager’s. A worker does not see the whole company — they see their own queue and two buttons.

A tablet by the printer farm and one at post-processing. The operator signs in with a PIN and sees only the parts that reached them, with the file, the material and the parameters. No more remembering which printer is running what.

The operator screen: only the jobs that reached their stage
The operator screen: only the jobs that reached their stage

A tablet in the workshop, a PIN for each person

You do not need a computer at every station. A cheap tablet on the wall, next to the machine, is enough.

  1. The operator signs in with a four-digit PIN — no email, no password typed with dirty hands.
  2. They see only the jobs that reached their stage. Nobody has to tell them what is next.
  3. Two buttons: “In progress” when they start, “Done” when they finish.
  4. The job moves to the next stage on its own and appears in the next person’s list.
  5. The system records who worked and at what time — no handwritten timesheet.
Picking a task up: “In progress”, then “Done”
Picking a task up: “In progress”, then “Done”

Order status, live

On a batch of prototypes you can see which are printed, which are having supports removed and which passed inspection. A customer waiting on a prototype for a presentation gets an hour, not a day.

Every order, with the stage it has reached
Every order, with the stage it has reached

A concrete example

A customer orders 20 PETG enclosures. The part is already defined, you change the quantity, and the price recalculates from print hours.

Unit of measure
piece count
Stages configured
4
The product spec sheet, with this trade’s own fields
The product spec sheet, with this trade’s own fields

Four things you will notice immediately

  • A part is defined once — file, material, infill, tolerance — and a reprint starts from it.
  • Price comes from your own grid, by material and print time, so PLA and resin stop being costed alike.
  • Post-processing is its own stage, with a person and a duration — usually the part that gets underquoted.
  • You can see how many parts in the batch passed inspection, not just how many were printed.
The price grid, configured for this trade
The price grid, configured for this trade

Your customers can see their own orders and invoices

Every customer can be given an account. They sign in at the same address you do and see exactly what concerns them — their orders, the stage each one has reached, the quotes they were sent, and their invoices including anything unpaid.

  • They see only their own orders and documents — never another customer’s.
  • They can download a quote or an invoice as a PDF instead of calling you for a copy.
  • They see the stage each order has reached — the same information you see.
  • The account is optional: a customer with no email address stays in the register, simply without access.

What if that customer already has an account with another company?

One email address has exactly one account across the whole platform — that is what makes signing in unambiguous. If the address is already in use by another company, the app tells you so plainly when you save, and you have two options: use a different address for this customer (the contact person who deals with you, for instance), or leave the field empty — the customer stays in your register, with orders and invoices, just without app access. Your data is never visible to the other company.

What it does

Reusable templates

Define a product once — with your trade’s own fields — and run any number of orders from it.

Your own price grid

Operations down, variants across, a price in every cell. Quotes become consistent.

Production stages

Each order moves through your stages. Operators pick up and complete; the system records who and when.

Invoices and proformas

Automatic per-series numbering that never repeats. Outstanding balances in one click.

Production reporting

What was made, by whom, in what quantity, and where the flow is getting stuck.

Configured per trade

Fields, stages and the price grid arrive ready for the work you actually do.

Try it on your own jobs

The account takes two minutes to create and arrives configured for this trade.

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