Digital Manufacturing · Quote
Laser Cutting
This route exists and resolves. The pricing strategy behind it does not yet: cut length, pass count and sheet area is a different rate model from filament grams, and it is priced once that model is defined.
Quote a 3D print instead Seam only: cut length, pass count and sheet area
Architecture
Why this is a seam,not a rebuild
The quoting core was generalized so a service type is a pricing strategy plugged into shared machinery: rather than the 3D-printing model hard-coded everywhere it is used.
Already built and shared
- File upload, streaming and queueing
- Model measurement and analysis
- Quote persistence, codes and retrieval
- Cart, checkout and payment rails
- Order lifecycle and customer email
- Admin, roles and pricing controls
What laser cutting still needs
- Sheet material catalogue with per-material cut rates
- Cut length and pierce count extraction from vector geometry
- Pass-count model by material and thickness
- Nesting and sheet-utilisation model
All of it is rate-model work, not platform work. That is the difference the seam buys.
The strategy registry
additive3D PrintingFilament grams against measured print timelive
cncCNC MachiningMaterial removal, tool time and setupseam
laserLaser CuttingCut length, pass count and sheet areaseam