Feature Update: Hub Pricing

eckerj · 2015-10-22T16:05:41.000Z

Hi Filemon,

Thanks for making the recent changes to the ordering system and giving back the ability to enter sliced object volumes. I see some other great suggestions in this thread (especially the volume/time/mass options), but I’ve received my first order since the fixes and it’s workable for me now

Thanks again

Stan_Baldwin · 2015-10-22T22:24:25.000Z

Your giving the customers to much room to screw up with these settings. I have dealt with many that think I print out of thin air and have prices that cheep. Going by cm3 was cumbersome but worked for FDM printing (I figured it from the density of the filament). Now trying to sell by bound volume and surface area is just asking for trouble. Especially when customers don’t understand bridging, brims, and supports. That add more cost to the print. I’ve had all my files come in needing some extra material that the customer did not factor in.

If you want to make some changes, make mass the way to price a print. We buy and use filament by the kg / g, we can check it quickly on a scale for the final amount used, and shipping is calculated by mass. This will help us correctly price our print, because I’m shortchanged when you take orders by volume. Your program underestimates the volume of a print consistently, especially when we don’t have all the parameters needed to gauge the true size (shell thickness, infill, etc…)

If I have a choice I’m sticking with cm3 for pricing.

Also I’d like to be paid by time. I’m doing an order now that will take 2-3 weeks. That is a lot of time to tie up my one printer, and I’ll have problems if someone else places an order. Even though the customer pays for the material, that is nothing compared to labor cost.

Filemon · 2015-10-23T08:21:11.000Z

Cheers @wei_sheng_3139, happy to hear that

StephanG · 2015-10-23T13:51:25.000Z

Great new update with the 3 different Marvin sizes!

Rifle · 2015-10-23T15:18:58.000Z

Can you add an “infiltration” or “sealant” option to the additional fee portion.

That would greatly help us using powder based 3D printers.

I don’t use support material, but I do seal the parts after print and there is a definite cost to this.

The best way to estimate this cost would be a factor times the surface area.

thanks,

Rifle Creek

Bram · 2015-10-26T14:01:43.000Z

Hey! you should already be able to select surface as one of the components to base your pricing on!

Bram · 2015-10-26T14:04:27.000Z

Hey! Time to print really differs from technology to technology. I do recognise that time to print and labour would be great components to base your price on. Will take this into account!

Mitch_1 · 2015-11-11T06:59:23.000Z

so what happened to adding additional costs for more than %20 infill, and if support is needed as with most standard extruder type 3D printers? also I dont see my material costs per c3 anymore, what happened to that?

obelix · 2015-11-11T11:32:59.000Z

Hello @Filemon

how can a delete a printer?

Filemon · 2015-11-11T16:41:18.000Z

Jep, that’s a bug :s

Currently you can only put your printers offline. Fix will be deployed late this week or somewhere next. Sorry for that

FabCreator · 2015-12-23T00:23:50.000Z

Does anyone else find judging the cost of the material buy the size of the 3d hubs guy really confusing? is it possible to make it an option of how to show the price. per cm/3 instead of this new system? which with all the options can get really hard to compare.

Cheers,

Bonne

Dane · 2015-12-23T00:26:40.000Z

I’m also very confused by why pricimg is now done according to sliced volume rather than object volume. Its way less transparent this way which is a bit disappointing…

FabCreator · 2015-12-23T00:31:08.000Z

I think it was always Sliced volume?

My issue is how can anyone possible compare the prices of the different materials and layer heights and everything else when we have a bizarre system of Marvins. i have not paid much attention to the update till now as i have been busy.

MicroVentures · 2016-01-14T03:24:01.000Z

Please allow us to add a NVPro printer by NVBots (http://nvbots.com/nvpro/). Thanks!

Josh_Raples · 2016-01-14T04:35:30.000Z

Way to bring back a dead thread… On a side not though, did you actually buy one of those? Last I talked to the owner he said the price tag was $15k

Mercedes · 2016-01-14T09:45:40.000Z

@MicroVentures I have added the NVPro printer to our platform!

John_Lomaga · 2016-01-19T06:35:29.000Z

I’m new to 3D Hubs, but one thing that would be nice as far as price options go is allowing customers to select different geometry and other extra services. For instance maybe they want a High Resolution print with the normal infill, but maybe another customer would want high resolution with full infill. As of now there is no way to offer a single resolution with varying infills.

raj3dhub · 2016-01-22T10:35:59.000Z

Hi

Can I add another type of material, rather than selecting from the list of materials provided

CM3DCreations · 2016-01-25T16:36:13.000Z

Why I am not seeing the pricing preview populate on my profile settings?

Nomadd_UK · 2016-02-02T10:04:10.000Z

Hi,

I am trying to add a printer. I am a new user to this site.

I set the name as Prusa I3 from the dropdown.

I set the material to ABS from the dropdown.

I set the colour as White (There are many more but I tried more and it failed to add so just tried white for this test).

I left everything else as default and set the Online toggle to on.

Clicked Save and got a message saying “Ouch could not add”. Why won’t it add the printer?

Thanks,