OpifexHQSolidWorks-native MES

Production software for metal fabrication shops

Your SolidWorks assembly becomes a production plan.

You import an assembly. The BOM, the workflow, the materials and the costing set themselves up — and from there you see where every part is, in real time.

One SolidWorks assembly

ONE CLICK

Production

Every part in its flow

Materials & buying

What's short, what to order

Cost

Per job, with real numbers

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30 days free · no credit card · your CAD files stay on your network

This is for you if: you build metal structures and design in SolidWorks — sheet metal, weldments, cutting, paint. Every job different.

It adapts to you: if your shop has its own stages, its own names or its own way of costing, we build it the way you need it. Tell us what you are missing.

The app

The live production board.

Whatever moves on the shop floor is on screen the same second. Office, design and production all see the same board.

A real screenshot from the app — not a mockup.

What changes

From the drawing to the cost.

Three parts of the job that stop living in separate files.

01

You stop retyping your own work.

Open the assembly and hit import. The subassembly tree, the BOM, the materials and the thicknesses come in as they are. No generic MES or ERP reads SolidWorks.

  • The whole tree, not a flat list
  • DXF / PDF / STEP into folders by material and thickness
  • Drawing changed? Re-import — production progress is not lost

02

You know where every part is.

The stages you already have — laser, press brake, welding, paint — go in once. From then on every part knows its next station, and the board shows it the moment it moves.

  • SOS / Urgent / Normal priorities, visible at every station
  • ETA per order — before it runs late, not after
  • History per part: when it passed where, and who worked on it

03

You know whether the job paid off.

Labour, material and design hours add up per job — not roughly, at the end of the month. You see the estimate next to the actual, and where the gap went.

  • A balance per code: what you need, what you have, what is coming
  • How many sheets to buy, with the offcut going back to stock
  • A customer quote off the same costing, not a separate spreadsheet

Who works in it

Only one person needs SolidWorks.

The Windows app goes on the design workstation. Everyone else — office and shop floor — works from a browser, with nothing to install. Same data, same second.

WINDOWS APP

Design office

The one machine that already has SolidWorks. Imports happen here, and the DXF, PDF and STEP come out here.

FROM THE BROWSER

Office

Orders, costing, stock, scheduling, quotes. Nothing to install — you open opifexhq.com.

TABLET AT THE STATION

Shop floor

The operator sees what is queued and moves it to the next stage. Big buttons, nothing else.

Getting started

Set up in a day.

You change nothing about how you design. OpifexHQ reads the files you already make.

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STEP 1

Download the desktop app

One install, on the design workstation. Ten minutes.

STEP 2

Import a job

Pick one you have already delivered: you know what it cost, so you see straight away whether the numbers add up.

STEP 3

Set up your stations

Your own stages, with your own names. If you like, we set them up with you.

Ask for a free demo.Half an hour, and you will know.

Get in touch and we show you OpifexHQ set up with the production stages you actually have. Online, no commitment — and without sending us a single file.

See how it works

30 days free · no credit card