Five capabilities · one method
What We Automate
Five kinds of work eat most of a design office's week: quoting configured products, redrawing variants, re-running calculations, repeating the same clicks inside CAD, and doing all of it only where a license is installed. Each has the same cure: encode the rules once, let software handle the repetition. Here's the tour, one capability at a time.
Capability 1 · Quoting
Product Configurators (CPQ)
SALES ORDER IN → PRICE · BOM · CAD OUT
A customer asks for a price on a configured product, and the request starts a relay: sales asks engineering, an engineer checks feasibility, drafts, prices, and three days later the customer finally hears back. A configurator ends the relay. Sales picks the options, your engineering rules block invalid combinations at the door, and the drawings, BOM, and price generate on the spot.
What you get
- A configurator in the browser or inside your CAD seat
- Your engineering rules enforced at option-selection time
- Drawings, BOMs, and reports produced with every quote
- Pricing wired in, so the number is instant, and right
Quotes go out the same day, engineering-checked by construction. Your engineers stop being the bottleneck in the sales pipeline.
Capability 2 · Drawings
Variant Drawing Automation
SPECS IN → DRAWING SETS OUT
Order 214 is the same conveyor as order 198, just 300 mm longer, and someone is redrawing it anyway. When variants follow rules, the rules belong in software. Feed in the parameters, and the complete drawing set comes back finished, annotated, and to your standard.
Best for: product families sold in many sizes, capacities, or configurations, where every variant obeys the same engineering logic.
What you get
- Complete drawing sets generated from one governed master
- Models and sheets that regenerate when parameters change
- Entire product families processed in a single batch
- Annotation and formatting identical on every sheet
A variant set that took hours arrives in minutes, and the hundredth drawing matches the first, without hiring a single extra drafter.
Capability 3 · Calculations
Engineering Calculations & Reports
INPUTS IN → VERIFIED REPORTS OUT
The sizing spreadsheet lives on one engineer's machine, forked into six versions nobody fully trusts, and its results still get retyped into the CAD model by hand. We rebuild that logic as a validated calculation engine: inputs checked on entry, reports formatted automatically, values flowing straight into the geometry.
What you get
- Calculation engines that validate their own inputs
- Report documents formatted and filled automatically
- Results pushed into CAD models, not copy-pasted
- Every run versioned and traceable for audits
One source of calculation truth. No forked spreadsheets, no transcription errors, and a report you can hand straight to an auditor.
Capability 4 · Inside the CAD seat
CAD Customization & Plug-in Development
YOUR WORKFLOW IN → NATIVE TOOLING OUT
Some time drains have no product name: the part-numbering ritual, the layer cleanup, the export dance performed forty times a week. We turn those into native commands and add-ins built on the official CAD APIs, so one click does what habit did in twenty. Real, version-controlled software, not a macro that dies at the next upgrade.
What you get
- Add-ins for AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, and SolidWorks
- One-click commands replacing multi-step rituals
- Ribbons and panels shaped around how your team works
- Hooks into the business systems around the CAD seat
The small, constant frictions disappear from every engineer's day. And because it's maintained code on official APIs, it keeps working after the next version upgrade.
Capability 5 · Beyond the desktop
Autodesk Platform Services (APS)
DESKTOP CAD → CLOUD AUTOMATION
Everything above traditionally runs where CAD is installed. Autodesk Platform Services removes that wall: the same AutoCAD and Inventor engines run in Autodesk's cloud, so a dealer with nothing but a browser can configure a product, inspect it in 3D, and pull the drawings: no seat, no install, no waiting on your engineers.
What you get
- Configurators served entirely over the web
- 3D models anyone can inspect in a browser tab
- Drawings and BOMs generated by cloud CAD engines
- Model data pushed to ERP and PLM over REST APIs
Your automation stops being desk-bound. Sales, dealers, and customers serve themselves; engineering reviews the exceptions instead of producing every output.
Free · no obligation
Can't Tell Which of the Five You Need First?
Most teams need two or three, in an order that isn't obvious from inside the workflow. The free audit finds that order: we map where your hours actually go, rank the candidates by payback, and hand you the plan.
- Your CAD and spreadsheet workflows, mapped end to end
- Automation candidates ranked by hours saved and errors removed
- The savings quantified before you commit to anything
- A build sequence you can start on, with us or without us