The operator's surface — dozens of builds in flight, a multi-machine fleet, dispatch and calendar in one view. The admin counterpart to the 3DMikeP customer line.
01 · the frame
two surfaces, one workflow
Quotes go out through 3DMikeP, the customer-facing line. Once a job is approved, it lands here — in the cockpit — and the operator runs it to ship.
Operator view. Queue, fleet, dispatch, calendar, inventory. Built for the shop floor, gated behind login. This page is its overview.
The front door. Text-in quote intake, public-facing. When a quote is accepted it crosses the wall and becomes a build in the cockpit.
02 · how it works
request → ship · the timeline
Every build runs the same five stages. The cockpit is the spine that connects them — and the only place a working operator should need to look.
intake
The customer sent a request through 3DMikeP. The quote was accepted, payment terms agreed. The job lands in the cockpit as a fresh build row — no manual re-typing, no copy-paste between tools.
queue + slice
The operator reviews geometry, picks material, slices, and writes the job to a build row. Queue order respects promised ship dates — the cockpit sorts by due, not by what just came in.
fleet · live
The print fleet panel is always on — a glance shows which machines are running, which are idle, which need attention. Hover any machine and the cockpit shows the job it's running, hotend / bed temp, and elapsed.
dispatch
When a build finishes printing it doesn't disappear — it shows up on the dispatch board. Post-process, QA, pack, ship. Drag cards across columns; the cockpit logs every move and times every column.
calendar + close
A monthly view of every promised ship date, every dispatch hand-off, every scheduled machine downtime. When the last card moves to shipped, the build closes — and the customer's 3DMikeP thread is updated in the same beat.
03 · what surrounds it
integrations · the wiring
It wires into the rest of the shop. The customer surface, the printers, the calendar, the inventory ledger — all reading and writing through the same spine.
Accepted quotes flow in. Status changes flow back out. The customer sees the same truth the operator does.
Bambu, Creality, resin — printers report progress, temp, and faults to the fleet panel in near real time.
Promised ship dates and dispatch windows publish to the shop's working calendar. No double-booking.
Filament, resin, packaging. The cockpit tracks on-hand vs committed and warns before a build starves.
Throughput by week, margin by job class, customer cadence. The operator sees trend, not just today.
The cockpit lives behind login. Customers never see another customer's queue. Operators see everything.
04 · glossary
words that mean things here
Short definitions, no jargon for jargon's sake.
talk to the shop
If you're a customer, the front door is 3dmikep.com — text us your part and we'll quote. If you're a partner, an integrator, or just curious how the cockpit holds together, write us directly.