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Glossary
Every term the product uses, in one sentence each, with where on screen you will meet it.
Every term the product uses, in one sentence, with the screen you will meet it on. Where the application shows a different word for the same thing, the alias is noted.
If you are buying
- Part · Parts
- A Part is one design you own, uploaded once and quotable as many times as you like.
- Project · Projects
- A Project is an optional folder for grouping Parts; deleting one never deletes the parts inside it.
- RFQ · Active RFQs
- An RFQ — Request For Quotation — is one request for a price, raised against a Part and sent to workshops you choose.
- Instant Quote · Instant Quote
- Instant Quote is an indicative price worked out in your browser from the geometry, without any workshop having seen the part.
- Order · Orders
- An Order is what an accepted quote becomes once you pay, and is the point from which a workshop starts making your parts.
- Shop · Shop page
- A Shop is a seller's workshop as buyers see it: its name, city, machines, materials and prices.
If you are selling
- Rate Card · Rate Cards
- A Rate Card ties one machine to one material and states your price for that pairing; it is what makes your shop findable to buyers.
- Equipment · Equipment
- Equipment is the list of machines your shop owns, grouped by process, with the build envelope each one can handle.
- Unit · Equipment
- A unit is one physical machine, as distinct from the kind of machine it is.
- Bill of Materials · RFQ detail
- The Bill of Materials is the line-by-line build-up of an RFQ's price, and editing it is how a seller sends a quotation.
- Production Floor · Production Floor
- The Production Floor is the board that assigns jobs to idle machines automatically and shows which ones are waiting on a person.
- Agent · Agents
- An agent is software running on a computer in your workshop that lets machines report their own status and receive work automatically.
- Work centre · Machine fleet
- A work centre is a group of machines, used to organise a fleet larger than a single bench.
- Settlement · Settlements
- A settlement is the money from completed orders moving to your bank account, after the platform fee and taxes.
Manufacturing words
- STL · Parts
- An STL is the most common 3D model file format for manufacturing, describing a shape as a mesh of triangles and carrying no units.
- FDM · Instant Quote
- FDM is 3D printing by laying down melted plastic in layers — the most common and usually the cheapest process.
- SLA · Instant Quote
- SLA is 3D printing by curing liquid resin with light, giving a much finer surface than FDM at higher cost.
- CNC · Instant Quote
- CNC machining cuts a part out of a solid block, which is how you get metal parts and tight tolerances.
- Infill · Instant Quote
- Infill is the internal lattice inside a 3D printed part, and the main lever between strength and cost.
- Layer height · Instant Quote
- Layer height is how thick each printed layer is: thinner layers look better and take longer.
- Tolerance · Requirements
- A tolerance is how far a finished dimension may differ from the drawing, and tightening it anywhere raises the price everywhere.
- Bounding box · Parts
- The bounding box is the smallest rectangular volume your part fits inside, and decides which machines can make it.
- Build envelope · Equipment
- The build envelope is the largest part a machine can produce.
Money and compliance
- GSTIN · Vendor verification
- A GSTIN is your GST registration number, looked up live during seller verification so your legal details come from the GST record.
- HSN / SAC · Bill of Materials
- HSN and SAC are the classification codes for goods and services that make a GST invoice valid.
- TCS · Order revenue breakdown
- TCS is tax collected at source on marketplace sales, deducted before a seller's payout.
- TDS · Order revenue breakdown
- TDS is tax deducted at source under Section 194-O, withheld from a seller's payout and credited against their tax.
- Platform fee · Order revenue breakdown
- The platform fee is what Yantra Bhavan charges on a completed order, taken before the payout reaches the seller.
For what each status means and what moves it on, see the status reference.