Breakdown Details

Breakdown Details

Breakdown Details is where the piece gets its price: press Create and the panel reads the model — metal volumes by layer, every stone, the processes the piece needs — and builds the complete cost breakdown, using the rates you configured in How to Set Your Prices. Everything is shown in your currency, and the breakdown is saved inside the document, so it travels with the file.

Open it with ArtisanBreakdownDetails, or from the Breakdown Details button in the ribbon’s File tab.

Four buttons in the header run the panel: Create computes (or recomputes) the breakdown from the current model, Export saves it as a file, Delete clears it after confirmation, and Help opens this page. The numbers do not chase your edits on their own — model, then press Create, and the breakdown catches up.

What the breakdown shows

The panel opens with the totals — the overall price and the subtotal of each section — and the date the breakdown was created. Below, each section appears only when it has something to say:

• Metals — each metal with its total cost and the figures behind it: cost per gram, net weight, waste, total weight, wax weight, volume, and surface area. Metals come from the Metal 01/02/03 layers and the alloys assigned in the document settings.
• Gems — the stone table: setting type, color and shape, quantity, size, sieve, carats, and cost per row, with totals at the bottom. The setting type is editable right here — switch a row from Prong to Pave and the setting labour in Processes re-prices instantly.
• Processes — per metal: printing (with the print size), casting (CFP), and two more editable choices — the finishing (Brushed, Sandblasted, Hammered…) and rhodium. Then the setting labour derived from the gem table, and your own additional processes: click Add… to name one and price it, click a price to change it, right-click a name to delete it.
• Extras — anything else that lands on the invoice, added and edited the same way.

Certified diamonds, quoted live

Stones at or above the carat threshold you set in How to Set Your Prices are treated as certified diamonds and get their own section. With a Nivoda account connected (see Integrations), each one is quoted against Nivoda’s live stock through your Nivoda preferences: same shape, matching carat window, natural or lab-grown as the document says, and only stones that pass your quality filter — ordered by price, up to five offers per stone.

Each certified stone appears as a card with the real offer: carats, price, the color–clarity–cut–polish–symmetry line, the certificate (lab and number), and the delivery estimate. Next and Previous browse the offers, and Web opens the stone on Nivoda to see its image, video, and full details.

Without a Nivoda account — or when no stone in stock passes your filter — the diamond is still listed with its carats, just without a price, and the command line tells you why.

Export

Export saves the finished breakdown in the format the next tool needs:

• Excel (.xlsx) — a formatted spreadsheet: the design’s info block (client, PO, style, designer), totals, and the full metals, gems, processes and extras detail.
• JSON (.json) — the complete breakdown object, for ERPs, automations, or backend processes.
• Natural language (.txt) — a readable prose report of the same numbers, intended for training AI assistants on your real data and automated documentation:

Here is a detailed cost summary of your jewelry design:

METALS
• The design includes 3,47 grams of gold white 18, priced at 70,12 per gram. This metal contributes a total of 243,46 EUR.
Total metal cost: 243,46 EUR.

GEMSTONES
• 10 gemstones of size 2,60 mm, totaling 0,64 carats. Price per carat: 620,00. Subtotal: 396,80 EUR.
Total gemstone cost: 396,80 EUR.

CERTIFIED DIAMONDS
• Certified diamond (1,50 ct, shape ROUND, clarity , color FANCY) priced at 1511,35 EUR.
Total certified diamond cost: 1511,35 EUR.

MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
• Metal processing: printing cost 15,00, CFP cost 173,60, finishing 0,00, rhodium 0,00.
• Setting 10 stones using Prongs: total 90,00 EUR.
Total process cost: 278,60 EUR.

EXTRAS
Extra components cost: 0,00 EUR.

OVERALL TOTAL
The complete piece has a final total cost of 2430,21 EUR. This price includes metals, gemstones, certified diamonds, all manufacturing processes, and any additional components