Jonathan | Fabworks 🏭

CEO @fabworkshq. Building a sheet metal instant quoting platform, with lead times measured in days. Proudly a USA based manufacturer 🇺🇸

[Jonathan | Fabworks 🏭 @jonathan_sessa]

@OSHBuilt Lol

[Caleb (OSH Cut) @OSHBuilt]

OSH Cut is accelerating. We're on track to double revenue this year, and we're adding capacity as fast as we can to keep lead times short!

[Jonathan | Fabworks 🏭 @jonathan_sessa]

Posting online and being (somewhat) transparent has led to more opportunities than I could ever imagine.

People like to do business with companies that are winning.

There has been exactly 0 competitors hit the market in the last 2 years while I’ve been vocal about our growth online.

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@felipe_makes Factory factory

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It’s true.

It’s really expensive to ship parts fast (more staff, more capex, more inventory) but it boosts cash flow, which when scaling manufacturing bootstrapped matters more than anything.

[Const 🇺🇸🏭 @c0nst]

per employee, sendcutsend does about $244k a year. protolabs $213k. the best job shops in gardner's survey $190k.

better, yes. nowhere near ten times better.

@fabworks_guy said fabworks went through the whole digital transformation and came out less efficient per headcount. what changed was the cash. "we are wildly more profitable thanks to better unit economics on parts, ie having good cashflow to buy capex."

i'd look at days to cash before i looked at headcount.

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@onesilentbird

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@onesilentbird Hm I don’t think this is quite right. Looks like the outside edges are tangent with the tube, mine max at 45

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@kibarian Copper cutting and bending first on the list 🫡

[Jonathan | Fabworks 🏭 @jonathan_sessa]

We have space for ~50 more materials going up this week. If we are missing something you order frequently, let me know. (Metals only)

[Jonathan | Fabworks 🏭 @jonathan_sessa]

@akical_ I think this gets close, might be some subtle differences in the interface between the subtraction and what’s left, we keep that all continuous

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Here is an example of the automatic processing your tube files get with our new system:

The tube on the right is incredibly difficult to cad, I wouldn't even know how to approach it without using a surface modeling tool.

[Jonathan | Fabworks 🏭 @jonathan_sessa]

Our tube laser cutting service just got a whole lot less restrictive!

If your part has a dfm issue, our system will automatically adjust it (and show you the before and after) which will make the process of getting tube quote much smoother!

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@Simon_Cleret Yes but there is more going on than this (I’m sure still possible but not what’s shown in the video) this isn’t a basic normalization it’s a clamp of the normal being between -45 and 45 to normal. Meaning angles sub 45 are preserved and angles over 45 are clamped

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@SCH_Clay Unfortunately I’m a simp for a pretty machine 😭

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Send off for our older Amanda press. 🫡

Making space for more new machines

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@fgf_fan https://t.co/nNc2C6f3tt

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@EnwardSayar thats how the one on the left is made, very easy, the one on the right is that + constraining no face to be > 45deg from normal on the tube surface, its some pretty arbitrary 3d surface...

[Jonathan | Fabworks 🏭 @jonathan_sessa]

@EnwardSayar thats how the one on the left is made, very easy, the one on the right is that + constraining no face to be > 45deg from normal on the tube surface, its some pretty arbitrary 3d surface...

[Jonathan | Fabworks 🏭 @jonathan_sessa]

@ATLSloan We use trumpf lasers and yes the tops software is very restrictive, we wrote our own, it was a long time coming but recent models helped bring it over the finish line and production ready very fast.

[Jonathan | Fabworks 🏭 @jonathan_sessa]

Our tube laser cutting service just got a whole lot less restrictive!

If your part has a dfm issue, our system will automatically adjust it (and show you the before and after) which will make the process of getting tube quote much smoother!

[Jonathan | Fabworks 🏭 @jonathan_sessa]

@WeShallPai Sometimes yes. The parts are all named “opencascade …” since most the time Claude is using freecad, but a lot of these customers just reach out to us with their story!

[Jonathan | Fabworks 🏭 @jonathan_sessa]

We are getting some huge MCP based orders. With parts fully generated by Claude. From serious startups and companies.

“Claude designed this for us over the weekend, we ordered Sunday night and assembled on Wednesday when the parts showed up”

Wild

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@kartikb753 The mcp sends back a ton of manufacturability data :) still some edge cases we need our humans for but it’s close and getting better every day.

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@lucas_crupi Bro, you guys are slamming that thing. LOL