Custom profile quotes, read off the drawing and drafted for your estimator to price.

A buyer sends a dimensioned print, maybe a sketch or a sample, and a few lines about quantity. Someone at your estimating desk reads the notes, works out what the resin and color callout really means, decides whether a die you already own will run it, adds cut length, packaging and secondary work, and sends questions back before anyone can price.

For the test, AI goes through copies of RFQs you already quoted and drafts your quote sheet one field at a time, noting where each value sits on the print. Anything the print or the RFQ leaves open goes on a list for your estimator, and no price or run rate is invented. Your reviewer, the person on your team who knows this quoting best, holds each sheet against what went back.

A resin callout may name a class and no grade. ASTM D1784 classifies rigid PVC and CPVC compounds for extruded or molded use by base resin, notched impact, tensile strength, tensile modulus, deflection temperature and flammability, and buyers can order by class number. The City of Corpus Christi's water main specification, one public example, asks for Class 12454-A or 12454-B virgin compounds under that standard. Polyethylene pipe materials get a cell classification of their own in ASTM D3350, which says plainly that it isn't there to supply engineering data for design. So the draft copies exactly what the print says. A note like "rigid PVC, white, UV stable" or "or equal" goes on the list for your estimator to clear with the buyer.

A print may cite the finished product instead. ASTM D4726 sets requirements for window and door profile extrusions, among them dimensional stability, weatherability and extrusion quality. ASTM D3679 covers extruded single-wall siding: warp, shrinkage, impact strength, expansion, appearance and wind load resistance. AAMA 303 is the voluntary specification for rigid PVC exterior profiles in windows, doors and skylights. A callout to any of these can bring testing and paperwork on top of the extruding, so each one appears on its own line with the edition the print gives, and what it adds to cost stays with your estimator.

Wall thickness and critical dimensions answer the die question. Patents on profile tooling describe why: the thin walls of a hollow shape leave the die soft, so a calibrator uses vacuum to hold them against its aperture while water hardens them, and the section draws down when the puller outruns the melt leaving the die. A new or changed shape can mean a new die and new sizing tools. One custom extruder's published guidelines ask which dimensions are critical and whether a mating part engages the extrusion, along with the tolerances on both. The draft pulls those out, checks the die list you send for the same part number and revision, and marks the new die field yes, no or ask. For tube and pipe, a print that cites ASTM D2122 brings diameter, wall, out-of-roundness, length and straightness onto the inspection line.

Cut length, packaging and secondary work add lines of their own. Straight lengths, coils and reels ship differently, and a length that suits the customer's fixture may not suit your carton. That same guidelines page says highly cosmetic parts may need a liner, film or foam, wants tape described by size, color, liner type, foam or transfer and holding strength, and prefers a physical color sample to a PMS number, so "match to sample" gets its own note. Punching, notching, printing, drilling and fabrication land as separate lines at your rates. Corpus Christi's specification rejects unmarked or scratched pipe and wants an affidavit with each delivery, the kind of marking and paperwork requirement that is easy to miss on a first read.

Annual quantity isn't the same thing as a run. An RFQ may give annual usage, a first order or a release size, and the quote has to say which, along with lengths or coils to a lot and the minimum your line will run. The draft fills in only what the RFQ states and asks about the rest. The owner names your reviewer, usually the estimator or sales engineer who quotes profiles today, and they compare each sheet with the quote that actually went out: every callout read, the die answer, the packaging and secondary lines, and the questions your team asked the buyer. Standards are named here only as words a print may use; this page is not engineering advice.

With a yes, each new RFQ gets a draft quote sheet as it arrives, for about 30 days.

Your estimator prices every line, clears every callout and decides what goes back. A person approves each quote before it reaches a customer or your quoting system, and the same table scores the live month.