Know your material cost floor. Bid with confidence.
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Built by a fabricator with 20+ years on the shop floor — not a software company guessing at your numbers.
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The real cost of guessing
Per-inch pricing charges the same for every letter. Your materials don't.
A 24" block "I" has 63 inches of trim cap. A 24" "O" in the same font has over 115 inches — the outer wall plus the island. Same height, same per-inch price — 2× more material.
You're not losing money — you just can't see your floor. A shop at $15/inch doesn't know if they can go to $12 to beat a competitor. SignCrunch shows the floor. Everything above it is your decision.
Same height. Same font. Same $/inch. 2× material cost difference.
How it works
Three steps to know your floor
Upload Your DXF
Drag and drop the same file you send to your bender or CNC. SignCrunch analyzes polylines, splines, arcs, and circles.
Assign Materials
Click paths to assign sign types and materials. Context menu enforces real fabrication rules — no invalid combos.
Know Your Floor
Instant BOM with exact raw material costs. Your cost floor in $/inch — the number the industry actually thinks in.
Built for fabricators
Every tool a channel letter shop needs
DXF Geometry Engine
Analyzes polylines, splines, arcs, circles. Measures every perimeter and area from your actual production file.
Centerline LED Calculator
Algorithmic thinning traces the actual LED path. Cloud fills use area-grid at 76mm pitch. Double-row triggers at 6" stroke.
Full BOM Breakdown
15 line items per letter — backing, acrylic, trim, coil, vinyl, digital print, LEDs, power supply, raceway, and more.
6 Sign Types
Standard front-lit, front+halo, halo-only, cloud, cloud F+H, cloud halo-only. Each with correct material rules.
Your Vendor Pricing
Enter your actual costs per sheet, per roll, per module. Your numbers from Reece, Glantz, Grimco — not ours.
Nesting Engine
Pack letters onto material sheets. See waste percentage, scissors cuts, and how layout affects your actual material cost.
Professional output
Two reports. One click.
Shop report shows every material cost per letter. Client proposal shows only your sell prices — material costs stay hidden.
SHOP REPORT
Full BOM with per-letter breakdown
CLIENT PROPOSAL
Clean pricing — no material costs visible
See it in action
Real DXF. Real materials. Real costs — in under 5 seconds.
Pricing
Full app at every tier. Just pick your seats.
No feature gating. No hidden costs. Every plan gets everything.
For Enterprise (5+ seats), please contact us.
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"I've been in this industry for 20+ years and always used a formula in my head — I had an idea on real cost, but to do it precisely was time-consuming. With a shop to run and new jobs entering the pipeline every day, you can never find the time to calculate each letter down to the trim without losing hours."
"I built SignCrunch so shop owners can know their true cost per sign — not true guessing per sign. Every formula in this app is tested against real jobs on our shop floor."
Won Lee
Founder, SignCrunch · Owner, Lee's Signs (est. 1990) · 20+ years channel letter fabrication
The next set of channel letters you quote — know exactly what they cost you to make.
Stop guessing. Start knowing.
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