CNC quoting software for milled & turned parts
Upload a CAD file and get an accurate CNC machining quote in minutes — cycle time, setups, tooling and material costed automatically against your machines and stock. Built for any manufacturer running a CNC machine.
How cnc machining quoting works in AutoCut
Three steps from CAD upload to customer-ready quote — built for estimators who need speed without sacrificing accuracy.
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Upload your CAD file
Drop a DXF or DWG into AutoCut. The system reads part geometry, hole counts, contour length, and bounding dimensions — no manual take-off from paper drawings.
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Apply your shop rates
Map the part to your CNC mill, material library, and hourly machine rate. AutoCut estimates cycle time from geometry and applies your setup, tooling, and markup rules.
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Send a customer-ready quote
Review the breakdown, adjust quantities or margins if needed, and export a professional quote. Respond to RFQs in minutes instead of rebuilding spreadsheets per job.
Materials it prices
Configure stock pricing and machining rates for your shop.
What CNC quoting software should actually calculate
Machine shops lose margin when quotes are built from memory — especially on prismatic parts with pockets, tapped holes, and tight tolerances. Consistent CNC quoting software ties every line item back to geometry and shop rates.
AutoCut is built for job shops quoting milled and machined parts from drawings or flat-pattern exports. You configure materials — aluminium, steel, engineering plastics — and machine parameters once, then reuse them across every RFQ.
Manual quoting often underestimates setup and tool-change time, or forgets to scale material cost when quantities change. Automated costing from CAD keeps your team aligned and gives estimators a defensible number before the job hits the floor.
Machine shop quoting goes wrong in the same place almost every time: setup. A part that takes four minutes to cut can carry forty minutes of setup, and whether that lands across one part or fifty completely changes the price. Estimators working from cycle time alone underprice short runs and overprice long ones, and usually cannot say which one they just did.
What AutoCut factors into your quote
- Material stock size and waste factor from bounding box
- Contour length and feature counts for cycle-time estimates
- Quantity breaks without rebuilding the whole quote
- Consistent markup and overhead rules across estimators
Typical customers: tooling shops, prototype houses, and production CNC job shops.
CNC Machining quoting — frequently asked questions
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