Laser cutting from STEP file to machine-calibrated price
Glintify measures outer and inner contours, counts holes and piercings, and picks sheet size from the part's flat pattern. Cutting time is calculated with your speed tables for the right material, thickness, gas and quality level.
What Glintify reads from the STEP file
The system analyzes the part's geometry and extracts every manufacturing-relevant feature without manual input.
Contours, holes, piercings, thickness, flat pattern
What is calculated automatically
All measurements are extracted directly from the geometry, no manual input needed.
Machine parameters that are calibrated
Every parameter is set from your actual machine fleet, not industry averages.
How the price is built up
Glintify builds the part cost line by line from your machine data and pricing library.
DFM and capacity rules
The system automatically checks whether the part fits within your capacity and flags designs that can cause production issues.
Secondary operations that may apply
Depending on the part's requirements, the following secondary operations can be added to the calculation.
Example cost breakdown
Line-by-line breakdown of the part cost using your machine data and prices.
| Cost item | Amount |
|---|---|
| Material S355 4mm | SEK 48.20 |
| Cutting time 2.4 m | SEK 14.20 |
| Piercings × 12 | SEK 2.40 |
| Nesting & scrap | SEK 5.80 |
| Setup & changeover | SEK 8.50 |
| Total part cost | SEK 79.10 |
The same routing line as in Monitor
On top of our time-based calculation, laser cutting is also costed as a routing line ("beredningsrad") in Monitor's format: production group (work center), setup time, cycle time, allowance (F-time) and piece time, priced with the production group's cost factors. The line can be exported as an article with routing straight to your ERP system.
| Routing line | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Production group | Fetched from your ERP system or created from the machine park |
| Setup time | Per batch, not per piece — spread over the quantity |
| Cycle time | The technical time per piece, calculated from the geometry |
| F-time % | Allowance on top of the cycle time |
| Piece time | Cycle time × (1 + F-time %) |
| Cost factors | Machine, wages + social charges and fixed manufacturing overhead in SEK/h, with a staffing factor |
Markups for MO (material overhead), LO (subcontracting overhead), AFFO (general overhead) and profit are added at quote level — exactly as in Monitor's pre-calculation.
Calculate your own part
Upload a STEP file, we run the analysis and show exactly what the system detects for laser cutting. No manuals, no calls.
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