For die casting & injection molding
Precision intelligence for Costing.
Everything behind the cost, in minutes.
Minutes
Part to costing
Physics
Out of the box
Your shop
Learned as you quote
Pre6 works a part the way your tool room, methoding and machine shop would, and looks up what you quoted before. You review the costing and reply the same day.
Already have an account? Sign inA die filling, simulated in the browser — the cycle and the porosity risk your quote stands on.
The real problem
Manufacturers know how to cost. They can’t gather the intel fast enough.
The intel sits with five departments that are busy making parts. A quote waits its turn with each of them.
Friday. Your customer has three other numbers.
How it works
A room of agents on every quote.
Pre6 doesn’t just calculate a cost. It brings you everything behind it. Drop the CAD and the drawing: the die, the alloy, the gating, the machining, quality and cost each work their part, and ask you only what they can’t read off the part.
Or forward the RFQ email as it came, and the costing comes back to you with the DFM report, the costing sheet and the tool’s CAD.
It learns your organization.
Your floor
Your presses and machines, at your hour rates.
Your plant
Its weather, and the fuel and power behind its melt.
Your customers
Their terms, stated once.
Your history
Every quote, and what it won at.
- Records
Quoted this housing in February, rev A, at 10,000 a year. This is rev B at 25,000, and the customer asks 60-day terms.
- Die
Two cavities and one slide for the side port, in H13, drawn as a STEP. Fits your 800 t press with clamp to spare.
- Methoding
Gate on the long wall, two overflows. The cavity fills in 38 ms; the boss freezes last.
- Alloy
ADC12 at this month's price. Your plant is in its humid season, so degassing runs longer.
- Machining
Three setups, eleven operations, 6.4 minutes on your VMC at your hour rate.
- Quality
CMM on four toleranced dimensions and a leak test. 1.8% rejects on the thin wall.
- Cost
$9.80 a part at 25,000 a year, the die at $14,200. Every line traces to the part, the physics or your rate book.
- You Approve Change the press Ask the room
Nothing reaches your customer until you say so.
Built for die casters first
The work that took days. Now in a few minutes.
It finds the RFQs you have already seen, with what you quoted, on what die, and exactly what has changed since.
Pre6 builds the as-cast shape, so the die, the fill and the shot are priced on what you actually cast.
Setups, operations, tools and minutes, on the machining centre you run, at your hour rate.
A slider on every wall that needs one, the lifters, the gate and the cooling, priced from the same design and handed to you as a STEP file.
Two cavities on one runner, slides pulling outward, pins, cores and the shot sleeve, as a STEP file you can open in your own CAD.
The quotes waiting on your sign-off, what the room noticed across them, and your plant’s weather read into advice for the melt.
Pricing
Pay for the RFQs you cost.
Each part you cost is $19 (599 credits), so an RFQ with three parts is three. Your first 3 are free, no credit card.
$20 per recharge
- 1 RFQs
- Unlimited users
- Valid 30 days
$500 per recharge
- 35 RFQs
- Unlimited users
- Valid 120 days
- 1,000 extra credits (5%)
Most popular
$875 per recharge
- 64 RFQs
- Unlimited users
- Valid 210 days
- 3,500 extra credits (10%)
$1,250 per recharge
- 95 RFQs
- Unlimited users
- Valid 300 days
- 7,500 extra credits (15%)
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Get in touch
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