ERP for laser cutting & sheet-metal job shops

From CAD to cut sheet to invoice. One system.

Plate Cutting Solutions is the ERP built inside a working laser cutting shop. Drop in your customer’s CAD or STEP files, nest true shapes, price from your real sheet costs and cutting speeds, then run the job through folding, dispatch, invoicing and payroll without retyping a thing.

Contract laser cuttingFolding & fabricationPlate & profile cuttingJob shops
NEST · SHEET 15052 aluminium · 3.0 mm · 3000 × 1500Part-in-part · 152 parts on one sheet
A 3000 by 1500 aluminium sheet with enclosure lids, base strips and plates nested edge to edge, with small tabs cut from inside each lid opening
Right lidBottom plate Main enclosureSmall parts cut from the openings
Built on the shop floorDesigned and run daily by a laser cutting business
DXF · DWG · NC1 · STEPThe files your customers already send
Quote to invoiceOne record from first price to paid invoice
Office, floor and phoneFolding tablets and staff clock-in included
Why shops switch

Three jobs the spreadsheet does badly

Before

Quotes priced from a guess at sheet usage.

With Plate Cutting

Every quote is priced from a real nest of the parts, your sheet costs, cutting speeds, pierces and setup.

Before

Drawings redrawn by hand to get a flat pattern.

With Plate Cutting

Upload the STEP file. The flat DXF and a dimensioned fold drawing come back ready for the laser and the press brake.

Before

Nobody knows what is due, cutting or packed.

With Plate Cutting

Orders carry due dates, nests, folding progress and dispatch, and finish as an invoice in your accounts.

How a job moves

Every step of a cutting job, in the order you do it

Each step picks up what the last one produced, so parts, prices, nests and paperwork stay linked to the same job.

  1. 01ImportDrop in DXF, DWG, NC1 or STEP. Folded parts unfold to flat DXF automatically.
  2. 02NestTrue-shape nesting across mixed parts and sheet sizes. Approve per material.
  3. 03QuotePrice from your costs and email the PDF to the customer from the ERP.
  4. 04MakeJob cards for the laser, fold drawings and timed folding on the press-brake tablet.
  5. 05DispatchPacking slips, delivery dockets and courier labels from the same order.
  6. 06InvoiceSend to your accounts and email the invoice in one click.
STEP to flat pattern

Drop in a STEP file, get a part you can cut and fold

Folded parts unfold with your K-factor into a flat DXF ready to nest, plus a dimensioned drawing with every view the press-brake operator needs.

  • Flat plates and folded parts from the same upload
  • Bend lines with direction, angle and radius
  • Send every DXF straight into the quote with thickness filled in
Generated drawing of a folded winch bracket with orthographic, isometric and dimensioned flat-pattern views
Generated from a STEP file · 6 mm winch bracket, two 90° bends
Integrations

Works with the tools already on your desk

AccountingAccounting softwareCompleted orders become invoices in your accounting package, with the PDF emailed to your customer. Approved timesheets go to payroll.
EmailYour email accountQuotes, POs, order confirmations and packing slips sent from your own business mailbox, with your templates and signatures.
MachinesLaser machinesLive machine status and the cutting queue from your laser’s cloud connection, inside the ERP.
FreightCouriers & freightRates, consignments, labels and tracking from your courier, with freight added to the order.
FreightAddress lookupDelivery address suggestions while you type in dispatch.
AIAI assistantsAn AI quoting connector that works from your real customers, prices and nesting.
FilesExcel part listsLoad a customer part list and match it to their CAD files by part number.
FilesCAD & 3D filesDXF, DWG, NC1 and STEP, straight from the customer’s email.
Book a demo

See it running on your own parts

Send a few CAD or STEP files from a recent job. We will nest and price them in the system and walk you through the result.

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