The drawing comes in. The price comes out.
When a customer asks you to make a custom part, they send a technical drawing. DrawingQuote reads every measurement off the sheet, drafts a price, and links every figure back to its exact spot on the drawing — so nothing on the quote is a guess.
For workshops & manufacturers
The drawing, read for you
Hover any figure and the part of the drawing it came from outlines itself; hover the drawing and the matching figure lights up. Nobody typed these in, and nothing is a guess — each value is exactly what the drawing says, right down to the ones that don't quite add up.
What it is
A drawing goes in. A priced, sourced quote comes out.
A technical drawing is a job request.
When a customer wants a custom part made, they send a drawing marked up with dimensions, materials, finishes, and quantities. Reading all of it takes time — and missing a single detail can throw the whole price off.
Turning that drawing into a price takes hours.
Someone has to read every measurement off the drawing and work out the cost — the material, the labour, the machine time. On a detailed part that's slow, and it's easy to miss something.
DrawingQuote reads it for you — and shows its working.
It pulls every measurement off the drawing and drafts a price. Hover any figure and the exact spot on the drawing it was read from lights up, so nothing on the quote is a mystery.
How to use
The tool itself, walked through.
BR-4471-02_RevC.pdfhover a spec →
| Spec | Value | Sheet |
|---|---|---|
| Nothing read yet — the sheet has not been opened. | ||
| Line | Qty | Rate | Total |
|---|
Sample job — nothing here is sent anywhere. Open the full tool to drive it yourself, full size.
Before / After
Eleven and a half hours, or eleven lines.
The two things it won't price.
Before — an estimator, by hand
Read the drawing, sheet by sheet.
Every spec found by eye, cross-checked against the email, and re-checked again before a number goes out — because a missed dimension is the estimate that loses money on the shop floor, not on the page.
After — DrawingQuote
Eleven lines, traced to the sheet.
The extraction lands once — that's the moment being shown. Every value is character-for-character off the drawing, including the two that raise a question instead of quietly resolving it.
Anything unclear gets flagged.
Two details in this request can't be priced safely, and DrawingQuote refuses to guess:
An experienced quoter would spot both of these. The point of writing them down is that the quote goes back to the customer with the questions attached — so they're answered before anything is made, not after the metal's already been cut.
DrawingQuote compares the draft price against your three most similar past jobs. It isn't setting the price — it's a sanity check. If the new figure sits outside your usual range, it's flagged for a human to review before the quote leaves the shop.
The spec table lands once, because the extraction is genuinely the moment — eleven and a half hours of reading a drawing has just become eleven lines.