A customer sends you a DXF at 7:40 pm on a Friday. In the classic workflow that email waits until Monday, someone opens the file, measures, calculates, writes the quote and sends it on Tuesday. Three days to say a number.
Instant quoting changes the story: the customer uploads the file and sees the price before letting go of the mouse.
What happens under the hood
- The geometry is read. Contours, holes and layers from the DXF. A STEP file is unfolded automatically: bends are counted, material and thickness detected, and multi-body files become one line per part.
- Real nesting. Parts are laid out on the sheet with an actual nesting engine, not an approximate grid — giving the exact material consumed for that specific quantity.
- The cut is timed. The engine walks the geometry using your machine's kinematics: speeds per material and thickness, small-radius slowdown, piercing, lead-ins and lead-outs.
- Everything else is added. Operating costs, setup, handling, bending, workshop operations, finishing and that customer's discounts.
Five ways to add a part
Not every customer has a DXF at hand, so there are five roads to the same place: upload the CAD file, draw it in the editor, take a photo of the real part and let AI rebuild it, describe it in words, or upload the PDF drawing — even a scan, with view detection and dimension reading.
What the workshop gains
Instant quoting is not only speed. It is that the price always comes from the same place: same parameters, same costs, same logic, whoever calculates it and at whatever hour. No more eyeballed quotes from whoever is in a hurry.
And there is a side effect nobody expects: when customers see the price immediately, they ask more. They try quantities, change thickness, check another material. Every one of those tries is a sale that previously never got requested.