This section describes the costing details and inputs that are available for User Guided Turret Press and the associated Bend Brake process. These processes are part of the User Guided process group for UG Sheet Metal VPEs. See
User Guided Costing for an introduction to user-giuded costing.
For this process, aPriori estimates manufacturing times and costs for low-volume sheet metal parts. The routing can include
secondary surface treatment and packaging processes (if you have licensed these modules). Since this is not a GCD-driven cost model, cost estimates are not based on a CAD model and geometry extraction; rather, basic geometric inputs (such as blank dimensions and number of bends and forms) are provided by the user. See
Sheet Metal for the GCD-driven stage tooling cost model.