Everything You Need to Quote Sheet Metal Faster
Practical, technically sound and always with an eye on the industry. Insights, tips and background knowledge from the team behind steelit, written to help you in your everyday work.
Sheet Metal Cost Calculator That Accelerates, Not Replaces
How to estimate the cost of sheet metal fabrication, and why a cost calculator should take the data entry off the estimator, not replace their judgement.
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Quotes in Record Time: Our CEO Isabel Koller on the Code Blech Podcast
How can quotes in the busy world of sheet metal processing be created faster and more accurately? Our CEO Isabel Koller talks it through with host Marvin Horn: bad CAD files, tool chaos, Excel masters, and why the first to answer often wins the job.
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Do We Really Need Separate Costing Software? Can’t We Just Handle It in the ERP System?
A modern ERP system already includes modules for quotes, routing and costing. So why invest in additional software? Many companies in the sheet metal industry ask themselves exactly that, and rightly so.
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Typical Challenges in Sheet Metal Quoting — and Why They’re So Persistent
Anyone working in sheet metal fabrication knows the struggle: there’s often a long and bumpy road between a customer request and a finalized quote.
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Back to the Future: Why We Added DXF and DWG Support to steelit
We built our software for 3D STEP data. Then reality proved us wrong: 2D is still very much alive, so the geometry engine now reads DXF and DWG files just as reliably.
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Welcome to our Blog: All About Sheet Metal Quoting & Our Software steelit
Material costs, machine time, geometries, CAD data, production strategies. This blog is about all of it, and about the person at the centre: the one creating the quote.
Read article
Sheet Metal Cost Calculator That Accelerates, Not Replaces
How to estimate the cost of sheet metal fabrication, and why a cost calculator should take the data entry off the estimator, not replace their judgement.
18 September 2025 · 6 min readQuotes in Record Time: Our CEO Isabel Koller on the Code Blech Podcast
How can quotes in the busy world of sheet metal processing be created faster and more accurately? Our CEO Isabel Koller talks it through with host Marvin Horn: bad CAD files, tool chaos, Excel masters, and why the first to answer often wins the job.
3 October 2025 · 4 min readDo We Really Need Separate Costing Software? Can’t We Just Handle It in the ERP System?
A modern ERP system already includes modules for quotes, routing and costing. So why invest in additional software? Many companies in the sheet metal industry ask themselves exactly that, and rightly so.
1 September 2025 · 5 min readTypical Challenges in Sheet Metal Quoting — and Why They’re So Persistent
Anyone working in sheet metal fabrication knows the struggle: there’s often a long and bumpy road between a customer request and a finalized quote.
12 June 2025 · 5 min readBack to the Future: Why We Added DXF and DWG Support to steelit
We built our software for 3D STEP data. Then reality proved us wrong: 2D is still very much alive, so the geometry engine now reads DXF and DWG files just as reliably.
12 June 2025 · 5 min readWelcome to our Blog: All About Sheet Metal Quoting & Our Software steelit
Material costs, machine time, geometries, CAD data, production strategies. This blog is about all of it, and about the person at the centre: the one creating the quote.
12 June 2025 · 5 min read
Sheet Metal Cost Calculator That Accelerates, Not Replaces
How to estimate the cost of sheet metal fabrication, and why a cost calculator should take the data entry off the estimator, not replace their judgement.
18 September 2025 · 6 min readQuotes in Record Time: Our CEO Isabel Koller on the Code Blech Podcast
How can quotes in the busy world of sheet metal processing be created faster and more accurately? Our CEO Isabel Koller talks it through with host Marvin Horn: bad CAD files, tool chaos, Excel masters, and why the first to answer often wins the job.
3 October 2025 · 4 min readDo We Really Need Separate Costing Software? Can’t We Just Handle It in the ERP System?
A modern ERP system already includes modules for quotes, routing and costing. So why invest in additional software? Many companies in the sheet metal industry ask themselves exactly that, and rightly so.
1 September 2025 · 5 min readTypical Challenges in Sheet Metal Quoting — and Why They’re So Persistent
Anyone working in sheet metal fabrication knows the struggle: there’s often a long and bumpy road between a customer request and a finalized quote.
12 June 2025 · 5 min readBack to the Future: Why We Added DXF and DWG Support to steelit
We built our software for 3D STEP data. Then reality proved us wrong: 2D is still very much alive, so the geometry engine now reads DXF and DWG files just as reliably.
12 June 2025 · 5 min readWelcome to our Blog: All About Sheet Metal Quoting & Our Software steelit
Material costs, machine time, geometries, CAD data, production strategies. This blog is about all of it, and about the person at the centre: the one creating the quote.
12 June 2025 · 5 min readBeyond the Blog
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