We've said it before....... Cost Estimation is not only time consuming.....it's SCARY!! Manual Costing can vary greatly from job to job, and if more than one person at a company does it, then forget about consistancy all together! Providing an inaccurate estimate can lose a job 2 ways....either by pricing your way OUT of a job or Losing money on a job you wish you hadn't "won"!! Using the same 'setting' from job to job gain instant repeatability, while greatly reducing the time it takes to manually determine what one 'thinks' the part will cost. With SolidWorks Costing, you can eliminate the stress and variability of the task by automating the process of Cost Estimation on many types of geometries, but in this video we focus on Cast Metal parts. We need to take into account things like Stock Material Costs your company uses, what setup and run operations cost, and each manufacturing method requires a different approach. For Cast parts, machine cycle times and the amount of payback from reclaimed and reused scrap..... even Discount costs can be account for, all AUTOMATICALLY!! In this video we cover how to setup and capture the variables necessary to properly estimate the material and manufacturing costs specifically on Cast Metal Parts. Follow me on Twitter @GOwithDarin