Instant estimate
Upload a drawing — PDF, STEP, IGES, DXF or a scanned image — and see the process route and an indicative unit price. No drawing to hand? Type the part data in yourself; the estimate works the same way.
The estimate is built exactly the way our engineers build a quotation: blank size and blank weight, the number of draw passes and the press tonnage they need, every secondary operation listed separately, then outsourced heat treatment and plating at real supplier rates. Uploading a drawing is optional, and the file is analysed on our own server — not sent to a third party.
PDF, STEP, STP, IGES, DXF, DWG, PNG or JPG · up to 30 MB
No file selected — you can enter the part data by hand below.
Your drawing is read on our own server and deleted the moment the estimate is produced — nothing is stored, indexed or shared.
Used for the estimate and, if you send the drawing, checked by an engineer before the firm quote.
Secondary operations on the drawing
Send the drawing through our RFQ system — you get a DFM review, a tooling concept and a firm price with lead time.
Blank diameter comes from the finished diameter and height (D = √(d² + 4dh) with a trim allowance), which gives the blank weight at the material density. The part weight comes from the weight printed on your drawing, from the solid volume when you upload a 3D model, or from the geometry when neither is available.
Draw severity decides how many passes are needed and whether an inter-stage anneal is required; the draw and blanking forces decide the press tonnage. Every secondary operation — turning, milling, grinding, drilling, tapping — is costed separately from its own cycle time and machine rate, then outsourced annealing and plating are added at supplier rates per kilogram with a per-piece minimum.
Deep draw ratio and wall thinning, tolerance class, and any operation that cannot be done in the die: internal turning, flatness grinding, cross-drilling and tapping are the usual cost drivers, followed by magnetic annealing for DT4E parts and rack plating where cosmetics matter.
Volume matters as much as geometry. Over 50,000 pieces a year a progressive or transfer tool usually pays for itself quickly; at 3,000 pieces the same part is usually cheaper as a single-station tool with a higher piece price.
For a thin-gauge deep drawn or stamped part with a clear drawing, the estimate normally lands within about ±15–25% of the firm price. It is most accurate for parts that resemble the ones we already run: housings, sleeves, caps, cups and washer-type parts in SPCC, DC01/DC04, stainless, DT4E or copper. Wide-tolerance parts and parts with unusual secondary operations carry a wider band.
From a vector PDF we read the title block (drawing number, part name, material grade, the weight printed on the drawing, scale, revision), the dimension callouts with their tolerances, and the technical-requirement notes. From a STEP or DXF file we measure the solid volume and the overall size directly. From a scanned PDF or a photo we run OCR and tell you which values are low-confidence so you can correct them.
The estimator says so instead of guessing, and switches to manual entry: you type the material, wall thickness, outside diameter, height and annual volume, and the same process route and price engine runs. Nothing is invented — an engineer checks the drawing when you request the firm quote.
Tooling is shown separately and amortised over the annual volume you enter. Freight, VAT treatment, special packaging, third-party testing (salt spray, cleanliness, PPAP documentation) and inspection fixtures are quoted separately. Tight tolerances that need 100% gauging or an added turning operation will raise the firm price.
The file is processed on our own server in order to produce the estimate, and it is deleted immediately afterwards — no copy is kept, the drawing is never indexed by search engines and it is never shared with third parties. We sign NDAs on request, and we do not put customer part numbers or drawings into public case studies without written permission.
Enter the annual volume, or the batch size you would actually order. Volume decides the tooling concept: a single-station die below roughly 10,000 pcs, a transfer or multi-station line from about 20,000 pcs, and a progressive die from about 50,000 pcs where the geometry allows it.
Prefer a full DFM pre-screen report on the drawing first? Run the DFM analysis.