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Post by mrgrimsdale on Aug 28, 2008 22:00:54 GMT
;D On a serious note why do you do most of the work for a quote ? Do you get every job you quote for ? I must admit if i am quoting for say a refurb on a club i will try and factor every detail but if its just a set of wardrobes i dont need to go into major detail as i know what i need by just looking at rough dimentions . If it's a competitive quoting situation I always put a big figure in. If they just want the lowest price why bother? Let someone else do it. I want them to want me for the quality, not the price alone. cheers Jacob |
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Post by sainty on Aug 28, 2008 22:09:18 GMT
Could be any number of clinical conditions! OCD, control freak, you pick it!
Seriously, the point is, whatever I do I produce something in sketchup to give to the client, If I can make that easier by with the use of components and everything else fall in behind that all well and good. I dont imagine that it will work for everything, but most of what I do is mainly sheet material and I think it could work. I think that CNC paul has a system appears to work in a similar way. It sounds like I'm trying to complicate things, but really it's the opposite, I want to invest a bit of time now and hopefully reap the rewards later.
Cheers
Stu
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Post by jfc on Aug 28, 2008 23:39:39 GMT
But CNC Paul has a CNC machine , He just presses a button and sods off for the day to go shopping with Dom ;D
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Post by Scrit on Aug 29, 2008 5:37:52 GMT
you cannot guarantee that the sheet will be totally square and accurate so a centre cut is i guess the best first cut if you can otherwise as you have said before, you need to do the edge cut. There's the difference, Paul. On a panel saw you almost always start with one or two edge dust cuts to give yourself two straight register edges at right angles to each other. A centre cut doesn't achieve this and involves more work IMHO On a serious note why do you do most of the work for a quote ? Do you get every job you quote for ? I think Jason's got a point here. I think it's worth doing a detailed costing for jobs you do get, but not always for those you don't (unless, of course, you're trying to analyse why you didn't get them). Over time a set of data is accrued which allows you to do quotes much more on the fly on the basis that they are similar to something you've previously done and you can simply adjust the figures to match current materials/components costs. Kitchen cabinets on the other hand are very simple, formulaic and can be costed using a spread sheet without any need to have drawings very often. For them it's probably only worth doing detailed costings on the "nadgery bits" like curve-fronted doors/cabinets and special hardware, etc. Of course if you do a lot of them it's well worth taking a look at something like Cabinetware or the like which can generate the 3D rendered images AND give you detailed costings. Scrit |
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Post by cnc paul on Aug 29, 2008 5:52:08 GMT
But CNC Paul has a CNC machine , He just presses a button and sods off for the day to go shopping with Dom ;D We've done that, we now just sit in the cafe over at Dom's place while Hudson brings us Cappuccino's .  Paul
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