A clear drawing handoff for CNC work.
We assess the drawing, the sourcing route, and the incoming checks before accepting a machined-part project.
What happens
We read the drawing
Datums, true position, surface finish, tolerance stack. Where the requirements are not on the drawing yet, that is scoped as design work first.
We assess the route
Whether the part is a fit for an independent machine shop, what it will need, and whether the incoming checks can be done here. A supplier and a schedule are confirmed for each accepted job.
It comes back here first
Calipers on the agreed features, compared to the drawing, before the parts reach you.
You get the part and the numbers
What was measured, on which features. If something is out, it goes back before it reaches you.
What “inspected” means here
It means
Calipers on the features agreed as critical, within what calipers can measure, by an engineer who can read the drawing, with the numbers written down and handed to you.
It does not mean
- Verification of every critical feature or every GD&T callout. Calipers cannot reach some of them.
- A CMM report. There is no CMM here.
- Micrometers, gauge pins, thread gauges, or surface-finish checks.
- First Article Inspection or a Certificate of Conformance.
- Material traceability or heat-lot documentation.
- An ISO quality system.
If your part needs any of that, we say so in the first reply. Different requirements may need a different provider.
$1,000 supplier minimum, 30% coordination markup
The supplier job floor is $1,000 of supplier cost. The 30% markup is applied to the supplier quote and disclosed: a $1,000 supplier quote plus 30% is $1,300 before any other explicitly quoted charge. It is a markup, not a gross margin.
It covers reading the drawing, choosing the route, chasing the job, and the agreed incoming checks. Acceptance and inspection scope are confirmed individually for each job.
Under the floor, the coordination costs more than it earns, so we point you straight at a shop instead.