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With material now at an all time high, everyone is looking at how they can control costs. One simple way would be to evaluate the material thickness of your project and decide if you are able to use a little thinner material.   Another option would be to look at your flat blank layout. Does your layout provide the best sheet yield? Can you modify the design a little to get more parts on a raw sheet of material? Our typical material sizes are 48x120 and 60x120. During the material shortages and allocation the 60x120 sheets have become harder to...

What Cad Program should I use? We use Solid works as our preferred 3D design software but here is a good free program to help you get your 2D project started. Draftsight What is the best way to get a good quote? The best way to get a quote fast and accurate is to send over a 3D solid model in either Solidworks as a .sldprt file, parasolid, or .igs. If it is just a 2D drawing than a DXF file will be fine as well. The reason we ask for the cad files up front is so we can get you an accurate...