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How to use Kraftius
A project is a customer order or internal job. It's made of one or more beds — each bed is one print run: a printer, up to four material slots, print time, and grams used. A project moves through Planning, RFQ, Scheduled, In-Progress, Ready, and Completed, with On-Hold and Cancelled as side branches. Moving a job to Ready consumes its material from stock automatically.
A quote adds up machine time (hours × the printer's hourly rate), material (grams × sell price, falling back to cost if no sell price is set), labor, hardware, and electricity, then applies your margin, waste, and any rush or setup fees. Exclude a bed entirely with the exclude toggle, or hide it from the customer-facing quote while still counting it in your totals.
Materials track cost and sell price per gram plus current stock, with a low-stock warning once you set a threshold. Inventory covers everything else you keep on hand — hardware, spare parts, consumables — with per-item stock levels and a purchase list for what to buy next.
Settings → Export writes a single JSON file with your printers, materials, projects, customers, folders, transactions, and inventory. Import reads it back in, matching records by id so cross-references survive the round trip. Exports can include embedded files, so a project-heavy workshop's export file may be large.
Every new workshop starts with an example printer and an example material already set up, so you can try a full quote before adding your own hardware.
- Go to Projects → New Project and give it a name.
- Add a print bed. Pick "Example Printer" and "Example PLA" — they're pre-loaded with sample pricing.
- Enter a print time and a material weight in grams. The quote updates as you type.
- Open the quote preview to see the full breakdown — machine time, material, margin.
- When you're ready, replace the example printer and material with your own from Printers and Materials.
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