Same job. Three quantities. Different headroom.

Setup: 2 hours at $80/hour. Programming: 1 hour at $60/hour. Fixture: $100 once. Fixed batch cost: $320.

Per piece: $5 material; 6 machine minutes at $80/hour; 4 inspection minutes at $60/hour; $3 outside processing; $0.50 consumables. Variable cost: $20.50.

Rates are synthetic costs, not selling rates. Machine rate includes machine and labor, excluding the separately entered programming, inspection, material and consumables. No cost allowance, yield loss, supplier lot minimum or changed route is modeled. All quantities retain that basis.

SWARF's free job quote calculator can represent the same costs with ordinary notes. At one $80/hour cost rate, aggregate fixed cost into 4 setup hours. Aggregate machine and inspection cost into 9 cycle minutes. Enter $8 for material plus outside processing and $0.50 for consumables, with zero cost allowance.

Change quantity to 25, 50 and 200 and copy each output. Use your notes to round unit price upward, reconcile payable totals, then calculate headroom: offered revenue × 0.75 − modeled cost. Divide by $80/hour for setup hours, or multiply by 60 and divide by $80/hour and quantity for cycle minutes.

This free route is mathematically capable and can retain every original assumption in a spreadsheet. CutTime removes the need to enter blended time equivalents, transcribe three separate outputs and reverse-solve both time alternatives in separate notes. That is a workflow difference, not new mathematics or measured customer time saved.

If your current spreadsheet already preserves separate cost rates, handles revisions and produces the customer document you need, there may be nothing to gain here. CutTime is a small local convenience tool, not an estimator's judgment.

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