SpoolIQ
User Guide

Getting Started

SpoolIQ connects the parts of running a 3D printing business that are usually tracked in separate spreadsheets: what you sell, what it’s made of, how it’s manufactured, and what filament it consumes.

This guide explains the core concepts and how they fit together. Each page covers one area in depth — this page is the map.

The core objects

Product — the finished item you sell. A keychain, a miniature, a replacement part. See Products, Components & BOM.

Component — a physical part that goes into one or more Products. A Product’s Bill of Materials (BOM) lists which Components it needs, and how many of each. See Products, Components & BOM.

Production Profile — describes how a Component is actually manufactured: which printer it’s compatible with, how many units one print run produces, the print file, materials, and print time. A Component can have more than one Production Profile — for example, one tuned for a Snapmaker U1 and another for a Bambu P2S. See Production Profiles.

Production Order — represents demand: “make N units of this Product.” Behind the scenes it breaks down into demand for the Components that Product needs. It can be produced Automatically, or from an explicitly selected saved Product Production Recipe (strict intent). See Production Orders.

Print Job — a concrete, scheduled or started print of a specific Production Profile. This is where a Production Order’s demand actually becomes committed to one way of manufacturing a Component. See Production Orders.

Spool — physical filament inventory, tracked so you know what you have on hand and what a print actually consumed. See Inventory & Spools.

How they connect

Product ──(BOM)──► Component ──► Production Profile(s) ──► Print Job
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Production Order ──(demand)───────────────────────────────────┘

When producing Automatically, a Production Order doesn’t lock in how a Component will be printed until a Print Job actually starts. Until then, you’re free to fix a bad print profile, add a corrected one, or otherwise adjust the production configuration without touching the Order itself. Alternatively, explicitly selecting a saved Product Production Recipe locks in its exact Profile/Plate choices as strict intent instead. Both paths are covered in detail in Production Orders.

Where to go next