Breakdown Settings

Breakdown Settings

Breakdown Settings is where your workshop’s real numbers live: what you pay for metal, what you charge for printing, casting, finishing and setting, and how long each step takes. Everything the Breakdown Details panel, the Technical Chart and the Report show is calculated from this dialog — set it once, correctly, and the rest of RhinoArtisan prices your work on its own.

Open it from Manufacturing → Breakdown Settings, or run ArtisanBreakdownSettings. The window title shows when the settings were last updated, a useful reminder when metal has moved since you filled them in.

The eight icons across the top are the eight tabs, and the buttons along the bottom are the same everywhere:

• Set Default Values — restores the factory numbers, a clean starting point.
• Validate Values — checks the settings for gaps and inconsistencies before you rely on them.
• ? — opens this page.
• ✕ / ✓ — discard or save.

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Info

Who the breakdown belongs to. The name, location and currency you set here head every report and drive how prices are displayed.

• Name and Notes — the manufacturing centre this configuration belongs to, and any internal remark about it.
• City, State, Zip Code, Country.
• Currency — the currency every price in RhinoArtisan is expressed in.

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Metals

The tab with the shortest shelf life — metal moves every day.

Markets takes the reference price per troy ounce for gold, silver, platinum and palladium. The LBMA Market Prices link opens the London Bullion Market Association’s official quotations so you can copy today’s numbers, and Compute turns them into the price per gram of every alloy below.

Metals is the alloy table itself, one row per alloy — 24K, 22K yellow, 18K yellow, white, rose and green, and down through the list:

• Makings — the alloy in parts per thousand. 18K is nominally 750, but if your workshop alloys at 752 to be safe above the hallmark, that is the number to put here.
• Density — used to turn the volume of the model into weight.
• Price (gram) — computed from the market quotation, and editable if you buy at a different price.

Further down the tab you can also declare the material loss expected during manufacturing, and the palladium content of your 14K and 18K white alloys, so the cost reflects the formula you actually use.

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Diamonds

What you pay for melee, per shape and per quality.

The row of small icons under the tab bar selects the shape — round, princess, oval, pear, emerald and marquise — and each one keeps its own price table, because a 2 mm princess and a 2 mm round are not the same money.

For the selected shape:

• Enable Mode Sieve — switch the ranges from millimetres to standard sieve sizes, if that is how your supplier sells.
• Quality — the melee quality this table prices. Keep one table per quality you buy and RhinoArtisan applies the right one to the stones in the design.
• Notes — a free field for the supplier, the certificate or whatever you need to remember about this price list.
• Range 1 to Range 6 — a From and To size and the Cost per carat that applies between them.

Any stone in the design that falls inside a range is priced at that cost per carat, against its own weight. Sizes outside every range are not priced, so make sure the ranges cover what you actually set.

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Printing

What it costs to grow the piece in wax or resin.

Six brackets, each defined by a maximum X, Y and Z in millimetres and a Price. RhinoArtisan measures the design’s bounding box and charges the first bracket it fits into — the way a bureau quotes by build volume.

Order the brackets from smallest to largest, and make the last one big enough to catch anything you print, or oversized pieces come through unpriced.

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Casting, Finishing and Polishing (CFP)

Workshop labour: casting the piece and everything that happens after it comes out of the flask — filing, pre-polish, polish.

One row per type of piece, and for each:

• Breaking value — the weight in grams that separates a light piece from a heavy one.
• Price below (g) / Price above (g) — what you charge on each side of that threshold.
• Casting per day / Finishing per day — how many pieces the workshop can cast and finish in a day. These feed the delivery estimate, not the price.

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Additional Processes

The finishes that are quoted separately.

The columns are the processes — Rhodium, Brushed, Sandblasted, Hammered and Other for anything of your own — and the rows are the types of piece: rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, pendants and other.

Fill in what each finish costs on each type of piece. A rhodium bath on a ring and on a necklace are different jobs, and the breakdown prices them as such. Leave a cell at zero and the process is simply free in the breakdown.

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Gem Settings

Setting labour, by setting type and stone size.

One row per setting type, in this order: prong, pavé, channel, flush, bezel, pressure, wax setting and other. For each:

• Breaking value (mm) — the stone size that separates cheap from expensive work.
• Price below / Price above — the labour charged on each side of it. Setting a 1 mm stone and a 4 mm stone are different jobs.
• Average settings per day — how many stones a setter gets through in a day, which feeds the delivery estimate.

RhinoArtisan already knows which setting each stone in the design belongs to, so these numbers price the piece with no extra input from you.

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Timing

How long the work takes, so RhinoArtisan can commit to a delivery date.

One row per stage — Printing, CFP, Additional Processes, Gem Setting, Packing and Security (the buffer you add for peace of mind) — and for each:

• Days — how many days that stage takes.
• Weekdays — the days it is actually carried out, so a stage that only runs Monday to Friday does not silently finish on a Sunday.

Together with the daily capacities from the CFP and Gem Settings tabs, this turns a design into a realistic delivery date instead of an optimistic one.