Ed Hutton
09-17-2010, 11:38 AM
Dear Forum,
I usually charge by the hour for CAD (I do mechanical & electronic CAD also). I charge $125/hr for CAD work. I have some clients who are fine with this and I have some that think this is pricey. This is all business to business work, Biotech applications primarily.
What is your expectation for pricing CAD work? Some of the files I get need a lot of work, some are just a napkin. Ocassionally, I get something in good shape (some of those I charge nothing for setup).
I'm cutting cloth and engraving text on it for a new biotech application. Final product is a cloth helmet. Several pieces and a lot of cuts, it takes about 9 minutes to cut a panel of cloth and engraving a lot of vector text.
I usually use the laser in conjunction with other equipment, but this job it is all laser. Pieces have to cut to fit the laser vector table, and then each piece (pattern) is cut out to make a set for the end product. The end product when finally assembled prices at a couple of thousand dollars to the end user.
What sounds reasonable for cutting these patterns and engraving the cloth? I'd like to be fair to the client, but I don't want to give it away either. It will be a few dozen pieces at a time, and over all might be a couple of hundred pieces across 18 months.
Ideas on what you would charge, and how you would price it gratefully accepted! Thank you.
I usually charge by the hour for CAD (I do mechanical & electronic CAD also). I charge $125/hr for CAD work. I have some clients who are fine with this and I have some that think this is pricey. This is all business to business work, Biotech applications primarily.
What is your expectation for pricing CAD work? Some of the files I get need a lot of work, some are just a napkin. Ocassionally, I get something in good shape (some of those I charge nothing for setup).
I'm cutting cloth and engraving text on it for a new biotech application. Final product is a cloth helmet. Several pieces and a lot of cuts, it takes about 9 minutes to cut a panel of cloth and engraving a lot of vector text.
I usually use the laser in conjunction with other equipment, but this job it is all laser. Pieces have to cut to fit the laser vector table, and then each piece (pattern) is cut out to make a set for the end product. The end product when finally assembled prices at a couple of thousand dollars to the end user.
What sounds reasonable for cutting these patterns and engraving the cloth? I'd like to be fair to the client, but I don't want to give it away either. It will be a few dozen pieces at a time, and over all might be a couple of hundred pieces across 18 months.
Ideas on what you would charge, and how you would price it gratefully accepted! Thank you.