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Your first order, end to end

One worked example: a bracket goes from an uploaded STL to a delivered part, with every screen it passes through.

Neha runs a small drone startup in Bengaluru. She has an STL of a motor mount, needs eight of them in nylon, and has never used the site. Here is her whole journey, screen by screen. Every step links to the guide that covers it in detail — read those when you hit something you want to understand properly.

Step 1 — Neha uploads the motor mount

She opens Parts and chooses New part. She drags in motor-mount-v3.stl, names it Motor mount v3, and files it under a project called Drone frame v2 so it does not get lost among later revisions.

The file does not upload yet. Yantra Bhavan measures the model in her browser — volume, surface area, bounding box — and keeps the bytes on her machine until she actually asks a shop to look at it. That is why the page is quick even on a slow connection.

Step 2 — She says what it is made of

On the part she sets the process to FDM, the material to Nylon and the quantity to 8. In Requirements she writes the two things a shop cannot guess from the geometry: the four mounting holes must be within ±0.1 mm, and the part will sit outdoors, so a UV-stable filament is preferred.

Step 3 — She chooses the workshops

She clicks Get quotes. Yantra Bhavan offers only shops that are actually set up for FDM in nylon, with the city and the usual turnaround shown for each. She picks four. This is the moment her file is uploaded — up to that point it never left her laptop.

The four requests are now visible in Active RFQs.

Step 4 — The prices come back

Over the next two days three shops respond and one does not. Each response carries a price for all eight parts, a delivery estimate, and a breakdown of what she is paying for. One shop asks in the chat whether the ±0.1 mm applies to all four holes or only the two that carry load — a good question that changes the price, and exactly what the chat is for.

How to read the responses is covered in Comparing and accepting quotes.

Step 5 — She accepts one and pays

Neha accepts the Pune shop's quote: not the cheapest, but the one that answered her question and quoted a firm date. Accepting creates an order. At checkout she enters her delivery address, adds 18% GST to the total, and pays by UPI.

Step 6 — She watches it get made

In Orders the order moves through Payment Confirmed, In Production, Quality Check, Packed, Shipped and Delivered. Once it ships, tracking appears on the order. Eleven days after uploading a file, eight nylon motor mounts arrive in Bengaluru.

Upload the design
Open Parts, choose New part, and pick your STL. The file stays on your machine until you send your first request.
Say what it is made of
Set the process, material and quantity, and add a note for anything a drawing would normally carry.
Pick the workshops
Choose which shops the request goes to. Only shops set up for your process are offered.
Compare what comes back
Open Active RFQs to see each shop's price and delivery date, and ask questions in the chat on the request.
Accept and pay
Accepting turns the quote into an order. Pay by UPI, card or net banking; 18% GST is added at checkout.
Follow it to your door
The order moves through Payment Confirmed, In Production, Quality Check, Packed, Shipped and Delivered.

In short

Upload a design, describe it well enough that four shops price the same job, compare the answers, accept one, and follow the order to your door. The only irreversible step is accepting and paying — everything before that is free and reversible.