costing24: Manufacturing Cost Calculator

Analyze your 3D CAD model online and instantly calculate costs for turned, milled, and sheet metal parts!

✅ Detailed calculation of milled, turned, sheet metal, and laser parts
✅ Geometry is automatically detected, manufacturing processes and machines are selected accordingly
✅ Adaptable to your machinery
✅ Affordable price, no long-term commitment
✅ In your web browser or integrated into your CAD system
✅ NEW! Uploading of entire assemblies
✅ New – AI-based! Import 2D drawings and use them for calculations

costing24: Calculate quickly. Decide confidently.

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Save money immediately
The component is analyzed and evaluated. By coloring individual areas according to the traffic light principle (red-yellow-green), potential savings are immediately apparent.
Create quotes in a flash
Preparing quotations is a much more efficient process, which in turn means more orders can be fulfilled.
NEW: AI-supported recognition of 2D drawings
Upload the drawing. This will make your calculation even more accurate!
NEW: Upload complete assemblies
Reliably calculate all parts of an assembly

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Calculate turned and milled parts online with our machining cost calculator: Benefits for the entire company

Technical Sales

Create quotes quickly and reliably.
Respond to customer inquiries more accurately.
Win more attractive contracts!

Design Engineering

Get an overview of costs and emissions in seconds.
Identify cost drivers early on.
Benefit from reproducible, data-driven calculations.

Procurement

Make better make-or-buy decisions.
Minimize the economic risk.
Strengthen your negotiating position!

New highlight features from 2026

AI-based recognition of features from technical drawings

We are putting an end to manual data entry: AI automatically recognizes all relevant drawing information – from dimensions and tolerances to manufacturing details – and links it directly to the 3D model.

The result is an intelligent, enriched model that serves as the ideal basis for end-to-end digital processes in design, manufacturing, and procurement. Efficient, precise, and forward-looking.

Assembly upload

Upload entire assemblies to costing24 with a single click to calculate the associated components.

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How costing24 supports you in your field

costing24 is the intelligent software for automated cost and time calculations in manufacturing.
Instead of relying on empirical values or manual Excel calculations, costing24 analyzes your CAD data directly and delivers reliable results in seconds.

For technical sales

costing24 speeds up the quotation process – without compromising on accuracy and transparency.

Technical inquiries can be evaluated directly on the basis of CAD models (with or without 2D drawings). The software automatically analyzes geometry, manufacturing features, and processes, providing reliable cost and time information in seconds.

Thanks to AI-based recognition of features from 2D drawings, models can be calculated even more accurately. Dimensions, tolerances, threads, and surface specifications are automatically recognized and incorporated into the calculation – without manual rework.

The assembly function allows complete assemblies to be uploaded directly. The corresponding parts are then calculated individually.

costing24 provides a reliable technical basis for quick, confident decisions.
This significantly reduces the time it takes to process quotes, giving technical sales staff more time for what really matters: advising customers, presenting arguments, and closing deals.

For work preparation & production planning

costing24 automates the calculation of production times and costs.

The software recognizes manufacturing characteristics directly from CAD models and automatically assigns suitable manufacturing processes. Setup times, processing times, and unit costs are calculated based on stored machine and process data.

The new assembly function provides you with a structured overview of costs and time at the assembly level for the first time. This allows you to clearly display the costs for each component.

2D drawings can now be evaluated using AI. Manufacturing-related information is automatically extracted and integrated into the calculation – ideal for inventory data or external drawings.

The result: less manual effort, reproducible calculations, and significantly greater planning reliability for capacities, vertical integration, and processes.

For designers

costing24 brings cost transparency directly into the design process.

Even in early development stages, the software shows how geometry, manufacturing methods, and tolerances affect costs and production time. 3D CAD models are analyzed automatically — without additional modeling or manual preparation.

A new feature is AI-based recognition of features from 2D drawings. Dimensions, fits, threads, and surface specifications are automatically read and used for calculation. This provides you with additional valid cost information and makes the calculation even more accurate.

Using the assembly upload, multiple components can be uploaded together and the parts can then be calculated one after the other.

costing24 supports you in designing cost-consciously – without restricting your creative freedom.

For purchasing and cost management

costing24 provides objective, data-based decision-making criteria for purchasing and make-or-buy analyses.

Instead of relying solely on quotes or experience, you get realistic manufacturing costs and process times directly from the CAD data.

The software shows transparently and comprehensibly which geometries and manufacturing features drive costs. This strengthens your negotiating position with suppliers and enables well-founded price comparisons on a technical basis.

costing24 creates transparency, reduces risks, and supports strategic, fact-based purchasing.

Calculation result shown in the browser …

… or integrated into the CAD system, in this case SolidWorks

Suitable raw materials are suggested automatically …

… and displayed transparently in the viewer

You can upload your own raw parts

Setup and unit costs are broken down by machine …

… and detailed shown in the cost report.

CO2 emissions are also calculated …

.. .and these are also output in detail according to the processing procedure.

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For CNC machine shops:
Use costing24 as a quote calculator on your website to digitize your quotation process and provide price information to your customers in seconds!
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Successful implementation of costing24 at RK Rose+Krieger

RK Rose+Krieger relies on the costing24 web service from simus systems to quickly respond to customer inquiries about customized products and to support development projects. Read how the company saves considerable effort, submits quotes faster, and achieves its cost targets.

„The simple ability to quickly determine the manufacturing costs for each component and know where a project stands in terms of costs saves a lot of time and effort.“

Kai Dröge, Calculator technical procurement at RK Rose+Krieger

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Save time, reduce costs, negotiate better: How transparent calculations make all the difference »

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Frequently asked questions – FAQ

What is costing24?

costing24 is the perfect manufacturing cost calculator for turning, milling, bending and drilling processing techniques. With costing24, you calculate the manufacturing costs of your parts online – only using the CAD model.

Super fast calculation of manufacturing costs of turned, milled and bent parts.
Highly developed by years of fine tuning simus systems calculation algorithms in numerous projects and various companies.
Provides extensive options to customize technology data for the individual calculation.

What does costing24 cost?

Try it for 10 days for free with your own models!
The test phase ends automatically, so you don’t have to worry about any hidden costs.
After that, it’s just 200 euros a month—that’s 200 calculations included in the price.
And if you need more, you can easily book additional calculation packages whenever you need them.
Best of all, there’s no risk—you can cancel monthly if you want.

How does costing24 know the manufacturing costs?

Our data is based on on algorithms and best practice values of our classmate PLAN software which has been performing for renowned clients in the industry. More information on classmate PLAN »

Which processing techniques is costing24 suitable for?

Parts to be produced by turning, milling, drilling and bending processing techniques.

Which formats are supported?

The following 3D CAD models are supported: SolidWorks, Solid Edge, Autodesk Inventor, Siemens NX, CATIA V5, Creo Parametric, JT (with XT-Brep), STEP, S3D (format developed by simus classmate). costing24 works independently from the modeling method used. A 3D solid is a mandatory requirement. 2D models or 3D surface models are not supported.

How can I add or remove processing techniques?

The suggested processing techniques correlate with machines suitable for processing. In “Settings”, you can activate machines you require for the calculation or deactivate those you do not wish to use.

How does costing24 protect my CAD data?

Your models are protected: After the analysis of the original model, the data is stored as the s3d format developed by simus systems. The original files will not be stored and will therefore not fall into unauthorized hands. Your models will not leave German borders as the servers are located in Germany. Other users of costing24 cannot access your data.

Which devices can I use costing24 on?

Can be used in any common current browser, as well as on mobile devices.

What is classmate PLAN and how does it differ from costing24?

classmate PLAN is a locally installed software which is integrated to the unique requirement of company processes and infrastructure in the long term in order to precalculate parts and assemblies made by your own company before work scheduling. Additionally, work schedules are generated automatically. costing24 is a web-based software providing several customizing options and therefore calculates manufacturing costs quickly and easily. Further differences in detail »

Can I integrate the service on my own website?

Yes, that is possible! Please contact us for details by phone +49 721 83 08 43 – 0 or by mail info@simus-systems.com

Who can I contact, if I have any questions?

Please do not hesitate to send us an email if you have any further questions or remarks: support-cloud@simus-systems.com

or call us: +49 721 83 08 43 – 88