MakerMade — know what the job costs before you run it

coaster-batch.lbrn23 layers

OutlineCut · 20 mm/s · 80% · ×2

FillEngrave · 200 mm/s · 35%

ScoreScore · 60 mm/s · 25%

Cut length

230 mm

Run time

2m 04s

Material

3mm birch

Cost per piece

$4.04

Charge $8.08 at 50% margin

Machine time$0.88

Material$2.50

Labor · 2 min$0.83

Overhead 15%$0.63

Measuredread from the file, not estimated

Two crafts, one set of numbers.

Ink and beam cost differently. MakerMade models both properly instead of averaging them.

UV printing

Ink is the cost nobody counts.

White and gloss run about two and a half times the cost of any color channel — and a flood layer bills the whole bed. We cost each channel separately, then add the purge and priming waste that makes the number real.

Laser

Every path, to the millimetre.

Curves are flattened properly, not approximated — so a 230 mm cut is 230 mm. Passes, line interval and acceleration all land in the time estimate, per layer.

The rest of the shop, costed too.

A job estimate is only honest if it knows what your materials cost, what you scrapped and how long assembly took. All of it feeds the same set of numbers.

Suppliers

Where every blank comes from, what you last paid, and how long it takes to arrive. Price changes flow straight into your costs.

lead times · price history · reorder points

Production log

Every run recorded with its file, settings, machine time and material. Your estimates get corrected by what actually happened.

what ran · how long · what it cost

Bill of materials

Break a product into its parts, each with its own material and process. Change the price of 3mm birch and every product using it updates.

nested parts · rolled-up cost

Scrap & write-offs

Failed pieces cost money whether you count them or not. Log them and your margins stop being optimistic fiction.

scrap rate · absorbed cost

Sheet cut calculator

How many parts come off a sheet, what the offcut is worth, and what each part really costs once waste is counted.

parts per sheet · yield · offcut

Assembly calculator

Multi-part products costed step by step — glue-up, sanding, finishing, packing — so labor is a number instead of a guess.

steps · labor · multi-part products

Design library

Files parsed on import — thumbnail, layers, speeds and passes indexed, with the last price you quoted attached to each one.

reads .lbrn2 · .xcs · .xs

Laser settings

Speed, power and passes for your machine and material — with a note on where each number came from, so you know what to trust.

per machine · per material · sourced

Know what the job costsbefore you run it.