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Hello,

Would appreciate any hints on how to charge for a 3d design, usually I get a picture or a a hand drawing (ex. a robot or a cell cover. I use cubify design, inventor and 123D. thanks in advance for any help.

Hany

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@Luuk @Robin3D would you be able to advise on this?

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Hi @Hanyz,

honestly I couldn’t tell, because it’s not my line of profession, but this might help: How much to charge for freelance art, design, programming, writing etc. (freelance rates) : KatsBits ARTICLES

Good luck!

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I know @ProdPoint, @key23d and @James_2 tend to do some design work. My personal advice would just to go ahead and start off quite low and make an agreement withe customer. If, for your first project, you spend too much time that’s just an investment in yourself. After a few projects you know better what works and you can price for that. Start cheap, create a customer base, then increase your price when there’s enough demand to sustain yourself

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I can’t agree more @Filemon !

Happy New Year and 3D Printing!

Kind regards, Guy

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Well… you need to know your hourly rate. If you are doing this in your spare time then that is small, if a business then your ‘needs’ divided by the numbers of hours available to work (minus holidays, lunch, cleaning, filing, marketing etc etc)

That gives you a min of what you should charge if all those hours were useful.

Then you put on a margin for profit and what the market will stand. You ONLY discount what the market will stand - never any of the basic hourly or profit or you wonl’t be doing this very long.

Sometimes (rarely I hope) i put some design hours into marketing - i.e. somethign i have not done before, or a teaser for a client.

Do not undersell your design work, and be clear who owns the intellectual property - so sometimes I will work for less if i won the property, if the client wants the property then I charge more.

Have a base below which you will not go and work up from there. - for me it can be anything from £80 per hourr to £200 (plus VAT) - rarely more!

As soon as you can get into some ‘industry’ software as ‘pro’ clients will expect a data exchange over and above stls (note re ownership of digital files)

If they come back for tweaks be very clear on the costs of that time too.

Invoice before you release data and on a regular basis :slight_smile:

James

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Thanks a lot, Thant was very helpful. Really Appreciated.