Yantra Bhavan vs Fictiv
Fictiv needs your CAD. We will quote from the mesh you already have.
An enterprise supply-chain network with a real Bengaluru hub, parametric-CAD-only quoting, and no mesh files for CNC.
The short version
Fictiv is the enterprise end of this category: a managed global network with ISO 9001 certification, four manufacturing regions and its own operations hub in Bengaluru.
Their CNC and moulding flows accept parametric CAD only — no STL, no OBJ — because a mesh does not carry tolerances. That is a defensible engineering choice, and a real constraint if a mesh is what you have.
We are smaller, Indian-only and uncertified, and you can see a price without sending the file.
Side by side
| Yantra Bhavan | Fictiv | |
|---|---|---|
| Processes | Eight processes, including laser, waterjet, drag knife and wire EDM. | CNC machining, 3D printing, injection moulding, urethane casting, sheet metal. |
| Files accepted | STL, STEP, STP, DXF — a mesh is fine for every process we run. | Parametric CAD only for CNC, moulding and urethane casting (STEP, IPT, SLDPRT and similar). Mesh formats such as STL and OBJ are accepted for 3D printing only; IGES and assemblies are not accepted. |
| A price before you upload | Yes. Your browser measures the geometry and prices it locally. | Not stated on their site |
| India | Indian company, INR, GST invoice, Indian workshops. | A Bengaluru operations hub, described as one of four global manufacturing regions with the US, Mexico and China. |
| Certifications | None. | ISO 9001:2015, alongside 42M+ parts and a 95.4% perfect-order rate. |
The mesh question decides this comparison more often than price
Fictiv will not quote CNC, injection moulding or urethane casting from an STL, and their reasoning is sound: a mesh has thrown away the tolerances and named faces a machinist needs. If you model in SolidWorks or Fusion and export STEP, that constraint costs you nothing. If what you have is a mesh — a scan, a downloaded model, something a colleague sent — they cannot help and we can, because our CNC flow reads STEP and STL both, tessellating the B-rep at ingest so the same pipeline handles either.
They have a Bengaluru hub; that is not the same as being an Indian marketplace
Fictiv genuinely operates in India and says so on its own site, which is more than most of this category can claim. The difference is what the Indian presence is for: theirs is a manufacturing region inside a global network sold to enterprise programmes. Ours is the whole company — rupee pricing, GST invoicing, Indian workshops quoting from their own rate cards, and support in the same time zone.
We could not verify whether their quote shows a price before upload
Their help centre describes uploading parts to get quotes, but nothing on their site states whether any price is visible beforehand, so that row is blank rather than a No. This is worth saying plainly: we would rather leave a cell empty than fill it with an assumption that flatters us.
Pick Yantra Bhavan when
You are buying a handful of parts in India, you want the number in rupees before you commit, and your file is an STL or a DXF rather than a parametric model.
Pick Fictiv when
You are running a production programme rather than a prototype, you need a managed supply chain with ISO 9001 behind it, and you work in native or parametric CAD. Fictiv publishes 42M+ parts manufactured and a 95.4% perfect-order rate; we have no comparable record to put beside that.
Questions we get asked
Drop in your file and see the number
The geometry is measured in your browser, so you can see a price before the file goes anywhere.
Price my part