Platform area
The workbench every design module runs in
One workbench where a design module turns parameters into a model, a drawing and a price.
The design workbench for a soft jaw set: the parameters, the dimensioned drawing the design engine produces and the price, £45.42 before VAT on the preset's example rates.
From the live engine
Why and how
- Why
- Made to order parts are quoted from drawings by hand, one enquiry at a time.
- How
- Set the parameters; the engine checks them, redraws the part and prices it from your own rates.
What is in it
Parameters
Each design module's inputs, checked against its own rules as you change them.
A soft jaw set drawn by the design engine: the three jaws in plan, the grip pocket and the bolt holes, dimensioned from the configured values.
Jaw style: Pie jaws
From the live engine
Model
The part in 3D, redrawn from the same parameters every time one changes.
Files
Save, rename and duplicate designs, and pick any of them up later.
Rates and stock
Set the rates each price line reads and match designs to stock you hold.
The products that bring it
The parts it hosts
- CostingThe price from the model, line by line with its working, from your own rates and stock
- PricingDiscounts, special prices, margins, quantity breaks and price brackets per customer, product, service or group, at scale
- DocumentsA spec sheet PDF with parameters, derived values and price, plus STL, GLB, STEP, DXF and a cutting list from the same design
- Customer facingTheir saved designs, read only with the parameters and price they may see, and Ask for a quote raising a request tagged to them
- PresetsInstalling a preset only adds design modules; removing it keeps any design module holding a saved design or your own rates
It follows your products
- AI
- Quotes
- Orders
- Customers
- Design
- AI
- Sales
- Quotes
- Orders
- Customers
- Products
- Catalogue
- Stock
- Servicing
- Design
- Operations
- Route
Questions
- The live ones are listed on the Design Engineer page. A design module for your own product is quoted as one-off work.More on Design Engineer
- From your own rates, set per design module under Rates and stock. The engine applies them to the geometry and invents no figure.
- Yes, with Commerce on: a signed in customer configures a design on your customer facing site and sends it to you as an order.More on Commerce