The custom bench
Upload a file, choose a material, and see the price before you commit.
One closed outline for the part, and a closed outline for every hole. Millimetres if you can. The price is driven by the length of the lines, so an open stroke or a leftover guide line is money you should not be paying.
Those are the two formats we can measure today. PDF, AI and scans are not open yet — export from your drawing app, or trace the scan back to paths.
Up to 10 MB. Your browser reads the drawing and shows the price straight away; the server then re-reads the same file and re-quotes it from scratch.
If the width and height we report are not the size you drew, the file's units are wrong — that is the single most common problem. Set them by hand and the figure updates.
The estimate updates as you change anything. Thickness options follow the material — steel rule foil only goes to 2 mm, so it is not offered at 10 mm.
Nothing is cut yet. We make a digital proof and send it to you; the cut only starts once you have looked at it and said yes.
The custom bench
Upload a file, choose a material, and see the price before you commit.
We could not find any cut lines in that file. A drawing needs closed outlines: one shape per part, and a shape per hole. Text, open lines, strokes and embedded images are not cut lines.
See a working example, or send us the file and we will read it by hand.
PVC foam and POM / Delrin are not on this list. Lasering PVC releases hydrogen chloride, which becomes hydrochloric acid inside the machine and attacks the optics; POM releases formaldehyde. No setting makes either of them safe, so neither is cut here.
Your first cut carries no setup fee. Minimum order $15, and the price is confirmed at proof stage.
Both drawings are real files, and every figure below was measured from them. Download either one and drop it into the box above to see the same numbers.
An outline and a single 6 mm hole. Because the second circle sits inside the first, we count it as a hole rather than as another part.
25 coasters, veg-tan leather 3 mm $42.53 $1.70 each
25 coasters, clear acrylic 3 mm $32.30 $1.29 each
100 coasters, clear acrylic 3 mm $102.68 $1.03 each
Six 3 mm circles down the centre give you somewhere to stitch. Tick Stitch holes in the Finishing box and they are priced individually.
25 bookmarks, veg-tan leather 3 mm $36.00 $1.44 each
same, with stitch holes ticked $38.34 $1.53 each
25 bookmarks, veg-tan leather 6 mm $51.12 $2.04 each
These three parts are all 90 mm across and all fit the same square of material. They do not cost the same, because you are not buying material — you are buying the distance the laser has to travel.
A square is 27% more cut than a circle of the same width, and a toothed edge is 38% more. That is the whole reason the quote moves when you change the shape and the size does not.
Today the bench reads SVG and DXF, up to 10 MB, and measures them automatically. Those are the two formats the measuring engine genuinely understands, so they are the two we offer.
PDF, AI and scanned images are not open yet. We would rather say that than accept a file we cannot measure and send you a price built on a guess. If you only have your drawing as a PDF or a photo, send it over — we read those by hand and quote you from the real outline. More formats are being added.
