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The metalworking numbers, made simple — free calculators for metal weight, sheet-metal gauge and thickness, bend allowance and flat length, material cost, cut lists, and welding filler, plus plain-English guides to fabrication, welding, sheet metal, and the metals and alloys behind every build.
From weighing a length of bar stock and reading a sheet-metal gauge to laying out a bend, costing material, planning a cut list, and estimating welding filler, MetalReal pairs free hands-on calculators with plain-English guides and an illustrated museum of metalwork. Get the shop math right before the first cut.
Metalworking Calculators
Free tools for the numbers behind working metal — weight and cost, sheet-metal gauge, bend allowance, cut lists, and welding filler.
Metal Weight Calculator
Work out the weight of a bar, plate, sheet, round, tube, or hex in steel, stainless, aluminium, copper, or brass — in both pounds and kilograms
Sheet Metal Gauge & Thickness Converter
Convert a gauge number to thickness in millimetres and inches — or back — using the correct table for steel, galvanized, stainless, or aluminium
Bend Allowance & Flat Length Calculator
Find the bend allowance from angle, inside radius, thickness, and K-factor, then the flat blank length you need to cut before forming
Metal Cost Estimator
Turn a part's weight and a price per pound or kilogram into a material cost, across as many identical pieces as your job needs
Material Yield & Cut List Calculator
See how many pieces you get from a stock length once the saw kerf is counted, plus the drop left over — the yield math behind a cut list
Welding Filler & Rod Consumption Calculator
Estimate filler weight and the number of electrodes for a joint from its cross-section, length, and deposition — a planning ballpark for a weld
Metalworking & Fabrication Museum
Step into an illustrated museum of working metal — the metals and alloys a fabricator shapes, the hand and power tools of the trade, the welding and joining processes that fuse steel, and the iconic structures and objects made from metal, each in its own gallery. Get to know the materials and machines behind every build.
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Fresh guides on fabrication and forming, sheet metal, welding and joining, metals and alloys, and shop technique, plus plain-language explainers on the materials and the math behind good metalwork.
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