LAMINASheet-metal quoting
Built for sheet-metal fabricators
Let’s make it a bit easier.
The model’s in one file, quantities are in a spreadsheet, and the finish came through by email. Bring it together, work out how to make it and put a price on the job.
Your CAD stays local. You’re still the one making the calls.
Inside LAMINA
We’ve opened one of our demo jobs so you can have a proper look around.
The LAMINA enclosureCAD + BoM + customer drawingA bit about this demo ↓
01 Intake
Drop in the files the customer sent: models, drawings, a bill of materials (BoM) or an email. You can add anything else when it turns up.
In this demoThe STEP assembly, 57-row BoM and six-page drawing are all in the same job.
See what LAMINA read from the drawing02 Review
LAMINA detects the sheet thickness and generates the flat pattern from the 3D model. Then you check the material, bends and how the part will be made.
In this demoLAMINA detected a 3 mm panel with two bends. The flat pattern’s ready to check; the material grade hasn’t been confirmed yet.
Take a closer look03 Price
Materials and cutting are only part of it. Add the bending, setup time, bought-in parts and other work, then set your markup.
In this demoThe BoM’s brought in the parts and quantities. These 42 customer lines still need pricing. Sheet layouts help cost the work; LAMINA doesn’t produce machine-ready cutting files.
This panel is from an earlier demo, not the unpriced quote shown here.
For one part: £140.92 including setup, then 35% markup and 8% overhead. These are sample rates.
04 Send
LAMINA flags missing prices, unmatched BoM rows and parts that appear twice, with a way back to sort them out. You can see what’s holding things up.
In this demo42 customer lines still need prices, and 15 BoM rows need matching. The quote stays a draft until those are sorted.
This is our demo enclosure, not a customer’s order. Q-2026-0004 brings together its STEP assembly, 57-row BoM and six-page drawing. The saved quote has 38 work items and 42 customer lines.
We’ve left it as a working draft. 42 BoM rows are matched and 15 still need matching. All 42 customer lines need prices. The separate priced-panel example is from an earlier demo, Q-2026-0001, using sample rates.
LAMINA detected the right panel’s 3 mm thickness and generated its flat pattern from the model. Its material grade hasn’t been confirmed. OCR read 359 text entries from the PDF; reading a note doesn’t confirm a manufacturing decision. The drawing itself is preliminary, not approved for manufacture.
The short assembly film is a rendered illustration, not a recording of LAMINA finding parts or welds.
Making the part
Getting the shape into the app is a start. You still need to know whether it can be cut, bent and put together on the machines you’ve got.
LAMINA generates the flat pattern and detects thickness from supported sheet-metal geometry. Check the unfolded shape and bend lines, then use the cut length, pierces and material usage to help build the cost.
Look at bend checks and possible joints. Two parts touching doesn’t mean the customer wants them welded—you still make that call.
Check sheet groups for each material and thickness, along with bending, joining and finishing setups. The quote needs to reflect your machines and rates.
Back to PriceReading the drawing
LAMINA uses OCR to read text in customer drawings. Pick a note, check it against the page and use it in the part’s review.
Here it’s picked up the powder-coat note on page 4. You can see the wording and the drawing together, without flicking between files.
Reading the note is one thing. Confirming the finish is still your call.
LAMINA runs locally, so you don’t have to upload customer models to a cloud service just to work out a quote.
More about your filesWant to link it to your ERP or another system? That’s something to set up deliberately, with a clear understanding of what’s being shared.
LAMINA can flag things worth checking. You decide what’s right for the job before those suggestions become confirmed choices.
If the customer confirms something on the phone, write it against the job. You shouldn’t need to remember the conversation when someone asks about it later.
Let’s look at a job that takes more effort to quote than it should. We can work through it together and see whether LAMINA would be useful in your shop.
UK demos · around 30 minutes
We’re still testing and improving LAMINA. For now, we’ll show you around in a demo. We’ll agree setup and pricing separately if it looks like a fit.
An example of the sort of job you quote, and what makes it awkward. Keep it non-confidential for the first chat. There’s no file upload on this website.
The quoting work runs locally. You decide what to export and whether to connect any other services, with data handling agreed for each connection. A demo request doesn’t give us access to your files.
Your materials, machines, rates, markup and quote format. We’d start with a few typical jobs to check that the setup fits how you work.
Not necessarily. LAMINA can work alongside an existing system. We’d agree which system handles the quotes, customer records and follow-on work before connecting them.
No—it’s our demo job, using sample rates. It still has checks to sort out before it could be sent. The screens show the app as it is, not a finished order.