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FOUR DECADES OF GETTING MACHINING COSTS RIGHT

Designed by a Machinist Who Cared About Accuracy.

Micro Estimating started because guessing at machining costs wasn’t good enough for the person who built it. Four decades later, it still isn’t good enough for us.

BUILT BY SOMEONE WHO HAD THE PROBLEM

We Didn't Guess at This Problem. We Lived It.

MicroEstimate was founded in 1982 by the owner of a high-production screw machine shop — someone who wasn’t theorizing about how machine shops price jobs, but running one. At the time, most shops were pricing complex, high-volume work on machines that had nothing computerized about them — heavy-duty, decades-old equipment, run on judgment and experience because there was no better option available. That’s the problem MicroEstimate was built to solve, by someone who understood exactly what got a shop’s price wrong in the first place. More than 40 years later, it’s still the only thing we do.
NOT A CLAIM. A PARTNERSHIP.

Trusted Partner with SOLIDWORKS and CAMWorks

Micro Estimating has a close, longstanding relationship with both SOLIDWORKS and CAMWorks. As one of their key OEM partners, we share decades of technical collaboration and trust. For our customers, that means a deep understanding of how design, machining, and estimating connect—and how these technologies work together to turn manufacturing knowledge into practical, reliable estimates.

 

That collaboration reaches directly into the software. The materials, speeds, and feeds library at the core of our estimating engine is embedded inside CAMWorks. Our technology runs in CAMWorks and SOLIDWORKS CAM installations worldwide, doing the same job it does for our own customers: using manufacturing data to calculate how long a part actually takes to machine.

YOUR SHOP. NOT AN AVERAGE

We Built a Virtual Version of Your Shop Floor

Most estimating tools work off assumptions — an average machine, an average rate, an average shop. Ours doesn’t. Our materials, speeds, and feeds library lets a shop model its own equipment exactly as it actually runs — not the manufacturer’s spec sheet, but the real RPM a machine is run at, the real tooling on the floor, the real rates that shop operates under.

In effect, we build a virtual version of your shop inside the software, so every number it produces is built on your equipment, not an industry guess. That’s the difference between an estimate and a guess with more decimal places.

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WHY THIS STILL MATTERS

A Bad Estimate Costs More Than a Lost Bid

An inaccurate quote doesn’t just risk losing a job — it risks winning one you can’t actually make money on. That’s the cost we’ve spent four decades trying to eliminate: not just speeding up quoting, but making sure the number a shop sends out is one they can actually stand behind.

Every product we build exists because of that same premise: the shops that know their real numbers protect their margins. The ones guessing don’t.

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SEE THE ACCURACY FOR YOURSELF

Don’t Take Our Word for It — See It In Action

However your shop quotes — CNC machining or broader fabrication — see what a real, shop-specific estimate looks like.
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