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Instant quoting software for FDM 3D printing
Price FDM and FFF parts from walls, infill, supports and your own printers’ speeds. Instant quotes with a breakdown, calibrated to jobs you have run.
- Process
- FDM
- Family
- Additive
- Input
- Mesh, STEP
- Status
- Live
The price follows the physics.
An FDM price is machine time plus filament plus the minutes someone spends at the printer. Time and material both follow the way the part is built, not its bounding box: perimeters on every layer, top and bottom skins, infill at the density and pattern the buyer chose, supports under the overhangs the part really has, and the travel and acceleration your printers actually achieve. Quote from volume alone and a hollow lattice costs the same as a solid block. Quotometry models that physics layer by layer, then fits it to your own machines from jobs you have already printed.
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Machine time
Usually the largest line. It follows the length of extruded path, the number of layers and how often the head slows for corners and small features.
- 02
Layer height
Halving the layer height roughly doubles the layer count, and with it most of the time on the printer.
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Walls and infill
Perimeters and skins are printed slowly and carefully, infill quickly. A part with many walls and little infill costs differently from the reverse.
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Supports
Support is filament you print and throw away, plus the hand-work to remove it and dress the faces it touched.
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Filament
The price per kilogram varies widely between a commodity PLA and a carbon-filled nylon, and spool tails, purges and failed first layers add to it.
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Labour per plate and per part
Preparing the bed, removing parts and finishing them. Shared across a full plate it is small; on a single part it can be most of the price.
Measured from the file. Priced on your machines.
Measured from the geometry
- Volume, surface area and bounding box. The envelope decides whether the part fits your bed at all, and the volume anchors material.
- A layer-by-layer cross-section profile. Wall length per layer is what extrusion time is computed from, so a lattice and a solid block of the same volume do not cost the same.
- Overhang area by angle band. Support material and support time follow the faces that really need supporting, at the threshold you set.
- Candidate orientations with footprint and height. Height drives layer count; footprint drives plate share. Quotometry can pick the cheapest or keep the file as sent.
- Wall thickness, shells and enclosed cavities. The DFM checks that stop a part you would have had to refund.
Configured by you
- Layer heights you offer. The qualities in the buyer’s drop-down, the first one the default. Finer layers mean more layers and more time.
- Infill presets, a slider and infill patterns. Named strength levels, or free choice between a minimum and a maximum you set. Each pattern carries its own material factor, because honeycomb lays down more plastic than gyroid at the same density.
- Walls, top and bottom layers. Perimeter count and skin thickness: material and outer-wall time.
- Support policy, style and finishing. Estimate and charge supports or refuse overhangs; tree or normal; and the levels of hand-work on supported faces a buyer may choose between.
- Nozzle, speeds and a travel factor. Per machine. The travel factor is calibratable: give Quotometry jobs you have run and it fits it.
- Filament price, density and spool waste. Per material, in the units your supplier invoices you in.
What your buyer sees
- A viewer with their part in it, oriented the way it will print.
- Quality, infill, colour and finish as the choices you decided to offer.
- Material and production as two lines, and the price per part falling as quantity rises.
- Any DFM warning, in plain language, before they order.
Heat-up, plate preparation and part removal happen once per plate, so parts that share a plate share them, and the plate packer works out how many fit. Print time per part stays much the same, which is why FDM quantity breaks are gentler than those in powder-bed printing.
Typical materials
- PLA
- PETG
- ABS
- ASA
- TPU
- Polycarbonate (PC)
- Carbon-filled nylon (PA-CF)
- Carbon-filled PETG
- PVA soluble support
Typical parts
- Jigs, fixtures and assembly aids
- Functional prototypes and fit checks
- Enclosures, brackets and mounts
- Low-volume end-use parts
- Props, display models and cosplay parts
Both priced by the real engine for the sample bracket against the Hobby FDM farm template that ships with Quotometry.
Pricing fdm, in depth
How to calculate 3D printing cost, for any process
A 3D printing cost is six lines: material, machine time, labour, post-processing, failures and overhead. How to work out each one, with FDM and SLS examples.
Knowledge baseDesign for 3D printing: walls, overhangs, holes, clearances and orientation
The design rules that decide whether a 3D printed part works and what it costs, with typical limits for FDM, SLA, SLS and MJF in one table.
Knowledge baseFDM print time estimation: why volume does not predict it
Two FDM parts with the same volume can take very different times to print. What really sets print time: perimeters, infill, layers, acceleration and travel.
FDM quoting, answered
Do you run a slicer?
No. A slicer answers one question exactly and slowly; a quote needs a good answer in under a second for every configuration a buyer might pick. Quotometry models the same physics, perimeters, skins, infill, supports, travel and acceleration, and then lets you fit the model to what your printers actually do, from jobs you have already run.
How close is the estimate?
That depends on your machines, which is exactly why the number is not hard-coded. The calibration tool takes parts you have printed, each with its real time or weight, fits the coefficients that are allowed to move, and reports the error before and after, so you can see how far to trust it.
Can I charge differently per printer?
Yes. Each machine carries its own hourly rate, build volume, nozzle and speeds, and a part is priced on a machine that can actually print it: one with a big enough bed, and an enclosure or a hardened nozzle when the material needs one. A carbon-filled nylon is never quoted on a brass nozzle.
Do soluble supports cost more?
They should, and here they do. Support material is its own material with its own price and density, so PVA or another soluble support is not priced as if it were PLA. Tool-change time per change and purge per plate are settings too, because a two-material print spends real time switching.
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