Using Metal Cost Comparison
Metal Cost Comparison is a read-only Piece tool for comparing the selected Physical Mold across active metals without changing the Piece.
What it does
Metal Cost Comparison lets you select a Physical Mold and compare what the Piece would cost in other active metals.
The comparison does not change:
- the Piece's Primary Metal;
- Piece pricing;
- inventory;
- the Physical Mold.
Estimated metal weight
When an authoritative wax weight is available, Prisflux estimates metal weight using:
wax weight × casting factor
The information icon beside Estimated Weight explains the calculation and factor provenance.
Estimated Total
Estimated Total replaces the Piece's primary cast-metal cost with the comparison metal cost while keeping the Piece's shared known production cost.
This lets you compare metals without pretending every non-metal production cost changes.
Price Based On
The grid shows the price basis used for each metal and provides provenance where available.
This may include current market evidence or eligible supplier evidence according to the current metal-price resolver.
Incomplete rows
A comparison row may be incomplete when required information is missing, such as:
- authoritative wax weight;
- casting factor;
- usable metal-price evidence.
The Status column explains missing requirements.
Supplier Cost Pieces
If the Piece currently uses Supplier Cost as its operational cost, Metal Cost Comparison is not available until the Piece uses Production / Composition costing.