The 3D Printing Profit Playbook

The free 3D Printing Profit Calculator

Every formula from the book, in one spreadsheet. Work out what a print actually costs you, and what an hour of your printer is really worth.

What is inside

• Cost Sheet — the six costs of a single print, plus the failure allowance, giving you a true cost per unit.
• Product Comparison — every product you sell, ranked by profit per machine hour. This is the tab that changes minds.
• Pricing — works backwards from the profit you want, with Etsy, Amazon Handmade and eBay fees built in, and a discount calculator that shows what a sale really costs you.

How to use it

• Fill in the yellow cells. Green cells calculate themselves.
• Set the machine rate once per printer — it does not change until you buy something new.
• Then do one product at a time. Chapter 4 of the book walks through it step by step.

The number it gives you

Profit per machine hour: (price − true cost − fees) ÷ print hours. Under $1.00 an hour and you are subsidizing that product. Between $2.50 and $5.00 is a healthy one. The book explains what to do at either end.