Questions fabricators actually ask.

Lasertally is Windows desktop software that quotes laser-cut parts for fabrication shops. It reads a STEP, DXF, IGES or NC1 file, measures the pierce count, cut length, bend count and bounding box from the CAD solid, and prices the job against your own rate card. The separate Nest add-on then nests the won job on sheet or tube and posts the cut program.

It is not a marketplace and it does not take a cut of the work it prices. It is software you install, and the quotes it produces are yours.

Lasertally's quoting engine is calibrated to the cent against real fabrication-shop quotations, and its geometry engine is pinned to ground-truth pierce counts on real customer RFQ files. On top of the engine's own suites, every release has to reproduce 3,655 reference cases. If a build does not reproduce the reference quotes exactly, it does not ship.

Lasertally reads STEP (.step, .stp), IGES (.igs, .iges), DXF (.dxf) and DSTV NC1 (.nc1). It handles solids, 2D profiles and tube, including automatic tube-section detection. SAT and DWG are not supported: export STEP or DXF from any CAD package instead.

The full breakdown, including which formats carry tube, is in the CAD format support table.

No. Lasertally runs on Windows 10 and Windows 11, 64-bit only, and the installer keeps itself up to date. macOS and Linux are not supported. Questions to hello@lasertally.app.

Yes. Every shop gets its first month free: 30 days of the full product, exports included, and no card. The month starts the first time you sign in to the Lasertally desktop app, not the day you sign up, so it does not run down while you are still getting the installer onto a machine. Lasertally opens your STEP, DXF, IGES or NC1 parts, measures the pierce counts, cut lengths, bends and bounding boxes off the real geometry, and prices them against a rate card you configure.

After the month you are not locked out. The account falls back to the free preview, which still opens and prices your files and simply will not export: no quote PDF, no posted program, no nest output. The preview has no end date, and a plan turns exports back on whenever you are ready. Start your free month.

Lasertally costs $479 a month for Sheet, $479 a month for Tube, or $759 a month for Complete, which is both. The Nest nesting and CAM add-on is $349 a month on top of any plan. Every plan includes five seats, and extra seats are $49 a month each. Annual billing costs ten months for twelve. There are no per-quote fees and no percentage of the jobs you win.

Full breakdown on the pricing page.

No. Lasertally is a flat subscription with unlimited quotes and zero transaction fees. Some quoting platforms charge per part quoted, or take a percentage of your web-store orders. Lasertally never does. Your margin on a job is none of our business.

Yes. Every rate is editable: programming, loading, run rates, pierce rates, travel, admin, material markup, lead-time tiers, per-machine rates, secondary operations such as etching, powder coat, welding and tapping, plus custom operations you define yourself. If it goes on a rate card, Lasertally can price it.

Every part you analyze is encrypted on your machine with AES-256-GCM and uploaded, so a quote priced at the front desk arrives on the shop floor with its geometry intact, and so a part can be re-opened from another seat.

What that protects, stated plainly: the ciphertext lives in one store and the key in another, so a breach of the file store alone yields noise. What it does not protect: Lasertally issues the key, so Lasertally is technically able to decrypt, and anyone who fully compromised our backend could too. This is not end-to-end encryption and we will not describe it as such. It is the same posture as every other cloud CAD tool, said out loud instead of implied away.

If your shop cannot accept that, a local-only switch stops all geometry upload and moves jobs over a folder on your own network instead. Full detail in the privacy policy.

Lasertally Nest posts generic ISO G-code with a rotary axis, and it writes the whole nest as an unrolled DXF, which imports into any CAM that reads DXF. So you can run a job through the DXF on day one while the G-code post is dialed in for your particular controller.

The post has not been tested against your machine, and that is deliberate rather than an omission. I do not have your controller, and a compatibility claim I cannot stand behind costs you a scrapped stick. What is guaranteed instead is that every program is read back after it is written and verified against the geometry it came from. Tell me your controller and I will tell you straight where it stands.

It does not write .zx or .ctds. Those formats are undocumented, and a guessed implementation produces files that open, look plausible and cut wrong.

No. Send to Nesting writes a bundle carrying the DXF profile of every flat part and the developed flat pattern of every bent one, and nothing else. The sheet nesting route is flat-only by charter, so a tube part never crosses in it.

A flat part that arrived as a STEP file does not cross either, because there is no DXF in the bundle to carry it. Both are brought in on the nesting seat with the Import command on the Parts menu, which reads the same formats the quoting seat does. Every part a bundle leaves out is listed there with the reason it was left out, so nobody has to work out an hour later that three parts are missing.

The bundle itself goes into a folder both computers can see, a mapped drive or a share on the shop network or a synced folder, and the nesting seat has an inbox that finds it. Save the quote before you send it, because the nesting seat files the job under its quote number and an unsaved quote has none.

Yes. Email hello@lasertally.app within 14 days of your first purchase and you get a full refund, no questions asked. This is written into the terms of service, so it is a commitment rather than a policy that can be quietly withdrawn. Renewal charges may be refunded at our discretion as well.

Lasertally and Lasertally Nest keep working to the end of the period you have already paid for, and then they stop: the desktop apps will not sign in again until you resubscribe. Nothing is deleted. Your quotes, your rate card and every file you exported live in local files on your own machine and stay yours, and your synced shop data stays on the account, so resubscribing with the same email picks up where you left off.