AI for milling.
Pockets, faces and bores, 3- to 5-axis, on your own machines and rates.
How a milling drawing becomes a cost.
- SDX-MFG-001_Rev-J.pdf
- SDX-MFG-001_Rev-J.step
Read from the drawingTo check
- Material
- 6061 Alloy
- Finishing
- Black anodise, dim. stable
- General tolerance
- ±0.1 mm, angle ±1°
- Surface roughness
- Ra 3.2 general
Complete part by part.
Model and drawing
Paired by file name. Any doubt stays a question for you.
Requirements
Tolerances, roughness and threads from the drawing, ready to confirm.
Revisions
Every revision kept, with its own files.
- Part
- 294 × 384 × 93 mm
- Envelope
- 800 × 800 × 550 mm
- Axes and reach
- 5 axes, tilts to the operation
ManufacturabilityUnder reviewFlatness 0.05 mm, to confirm
TimeBasis of the estimate
- 1+Zto the spindle
- 2−Xto the spindle
- Drill Ø3.32× M4-6H, from −X
- Tap M4-6Hafter drilling
Checked against your own machines.
Envelope and axes
Recorded per machine.
Hourly rate
Your rate, per machine.
Setups
Recorded per route by your team.
SDX-MFG-001 Rev J, 25 parts
- Material
- EN AW-6061, 298 × 388 × 97 mm
- General tolerance
- ±0.1 mm, angle ±1°
- Flatness 0.05 mm
- M4-6H, 2×
- Roughness
- Ra 3.2 general
- FinishingOutsourced
- Black anodising
- Setups
- 2, +Z and −X
- Cycle time
- 10 h × €165.00/h
- ProgrammingOne-off
- 8 h × €95.00/h
- SetupPer series
- 4 h × €165.00/h
What does this part cost in your shop?
See how Blake calculates with your machines, rates and production setup.
Request a demoEvery line with time, rate and quantity.
Separate lines
Material, milling time, setup and programming.
Quantity breaks
Cost per part at every quantity asked.
An estimate
Labelled as one, and correctable with a reason.
What makes or breaks a milling price.
Setups.
Every side the tool cannot reach often costs another setup.
Stiffness.
Start on the solid side. A part that sticks out can chatter.
Measuring.
A tight tolerance has to be measured too, and proven to the customer.
After the estimate comes the measured time.
Underneath Blake sits Subduxion’s manufacturing world model: how a part, its requirements, your machines and your team’s decisions fit together. It estimates the machining time first; the next steps put the measured time beside it.
- Next: the cycle time from the CAM program beside the estimated time.
- Then the machine’s hours per order, beside the estimate.
- Every next estimate then starts from what was actually made.
Frequently asked questions
How does Blake estimate the cost of a milled part?
Blake puts material, milling time, setup and programming on separate lines, at your own machines and hourly rates. You see the cost per part and per batch. Every result is labelled as an estimate, with its inputs on every line.
Can Blake estimate 5-axis milling?
Yes, from 3- to 5-axis. You record your machines with envelope and axes, and the setups for each route. Blake uses the setups you accept: two setups on five axes take less setup time than five setups on three.
Which requirements does Blake take from a milling drawing?
Material, tolerances, roughness, threads and finishing. On a milled part, above all the general tolerance, the roughness of the faces and the threads in the bores. Blake reads them from the PDF drawing and places them as proposals beside the STEP model. You confirm or correct them; who changed what stays on record.
What does a milled part cost at another quantity?
The quantity breaks show it: the cost per part at every quantity. Setup and programming spread over the batch; material, milling time and finishing stay the same per part.
Does Blake use our own hourly rates?
Yes. Every machine in Blake carries your own shop rate, and milling time is costed at the rate of the machine you choose.
Count the setups before you name a price
Category: Know-how7 min read
General tolerance: what ISO 2768 says and leaves out
Category: Know-how8 min read
Setup plan: start with the last setup
Category: Know-how8 min read
Your milling know-how.
In every estimate.
In a demo, follow a 5-axis frame from drawing to quantity breaks.
SDX-MFG-001 Rev J