KraftyQuote / For 3D printing
For 3D printing
Price the print from the slicer.
Your slicer already knows the two numbers that cost a print: hours and grams. KraftyQuote takes both, adds the post-processing and hardware the slicer doesn’t see, and solves for a price that holds your margin after the marketplace’s fees.
How a print is costed
- A 3D printer row takes the print hours from the slicer. Printing a full plate? Type the plate’s hours and how many parts are on it, and each part carries its share.
- Filament by weight. A material line measured in grams: the spool’s weight and price, and the grams per part. A 1 kg spool is 1000 g. The scrap allowance covers failed prints and purge.
- One button, “+ 3D Print”, adds both, ready for your slicer’s numbers.
Worked example: one PLA part
| Filament: 85 g of a $20, 1 kg spool, +5% scrap | $1.79 |
| Printer: 4 h at $0.60/hour | $2.40 |
| Support removal and sanding: 15 min at $30/hour | $7.50 |
| Cost before overhead and margin | $11.69 |
The $0.60 is what a desktop printer costs to own and run (power, nozzles, a few years of life); the machine hourly rate calculator works out yours from what the printer cost, how long it lasts, how many hours a week it runs, and power. The labor is often the bigger number, which is why it belongs on the quote.
Where it fits
KraftyQuote isn’t a slicer and doesn’t read G-code. It is for shops that sell what they print, especially shops that also cut, engrave or finish by hand, so one quote covers a printed part, a laser-cut panel and the hours to put them together.
What else is in the quote
- Materials, hardware and labor on every line, with a scrap allowance and your shop overhead spread over billable hours.
- The price that holds your margin after the selling channel's cut: Etsy, Square, Shopify, PayPal and others are built in, with sales tax and a deposit if you take one.
- A customer quote and a shop ticket from the same numbers, as a PDF or an email.
- KraftyFlow, a job board with a stage timer, so the time you actually spend comes back next to the time you quoted.
- KraftyStock, which takes the material off your inventory when a job is done and flags what is running low.
Set an hourly rate for your machine with the machine hourly rate calculator: purchase price, years of life, hours a week, power and upkeep.
What's free and what's paid: estimating, quote and shop-ticket PDFs, and nests of up to 5 different parts are free on every plan, with the cash, Square, Shopify and Etsy channels. Maker Pro adds the other sales channels (PayPal, Faire and more) and quotes your customer accepts online. Workshop Suite adds SVG/DXF import, nesting with no part limit and every KraftyDesign shape but the knife blank. See the plans.
Questions
Does KraftyQuote read my slicer file?
No. Type the print time and the grams from your slicer’s summary. Two numbers per part, and you stay in control of what the estimate assumes.
How do I price a full plate of parts?
Type the plate’s print time and the number of parts on it; the printer row works out each part’s share. Divide the plate’s filament the same way for the material line, and the line’s quantity does the rest.
Can I keep filament in inventory?
Yes, once your account’s stock can be measured by weight; signed-out shops can already. KraftyStock then takes the grams off the spool when a job is done.
What about resin printers?
The same way: print hours on the printer row, resin by weight on a material line, and the washing and curing time as labor.