Pricing
You can check the price of your part at any time. For example you might want
to check the price before and after adding a new design element.
To view pricing:
- Choose Job | Price. If there are
no errors in your design,
the price dialog will display a list of several
price/time options.
- Enter the desired quantity.
- Select the price/time combination you prefer.
- In some cases minor changes to your design may be offered which
help to optimize price.
Price changes
Prices quoted by the software will vary over time. There are several reasons
for this:
- The complex software quotation mechanism is continually being modified to
reflect real costs more accurately.
- Minor changes you make in your design or any of the many settings and options
will effect price.
- Costs of material, labor, shipping, etc. vary over time.
- We make changes to equipment.
If you are re-pricing a job and the price is now lower - great!
If the price is higher, please see above for possible reasons and see price reduction tips.
Price file update
The price file is internal information used to calculate the price of your job.
The file is typically changed every few days. Two update methods are supported -
Direct and Indirect. If the Direct method
does not work (due to a firewall etc), select the indirect method.
To update the price file using the Direct method:
- The pricing file is updated automatically.
To update the price file using the Indirect method:
- Establish an Internet connection as if you were browsing the web.
- Choose Order | Update Price File.
A dialog appears.
- Click on the link. A web page opens.
- Follow the instructions shown on the web.
Unsupported Machines
To get a price quote for a process that is not yet directly supported in the CAD software:
... add Comments To Machinist text "For quotation only" and use the Place Order command. (eMachineShop does manual quotations only for processes not supported by the automatic pricing mechanism.)
