Are you offering customized sheet metal cabinets and products and want the client to do the customization themselves? Or do you need to make cutouts at certain places?
No matter the case, this DynaMaker template for cabinets and electronics could perhaps be a good starting point for your first online CAD configurator.
Glass railings are usually customized to the dimensions of the customer’s home. This template is great to build on if you’re looking for a way to sell custom glass railings in e-commerce. Once the design phase is complete the customer can request a quotation for their design and download a PDF drawing that shows the design.
The template is available in two version: Predetermined layouts (Straight, L-shaped, U-shape, etc) and instance chains of sections (Keep connecting new sections).
If you want to understand the difference we recommend reading how to handle product configuration complexity in this article
Enable the user to customize a shower stand with measurements and glass color. This is an example of how a configurator can look, and is easy to integrate into e-commerce where the customer can configure the shower stand with measurements from their home. The visualization makes it easy for the customer to understand how the final shower stand will look.
Do you want to explore this template? Try it out live or contact us to get the template to your DynaMaker account!
Picking the right size and load capacity for your lifting table is hard. The customer know what to lift while the manufacturer knows what is required to make a stable and safe liftable work table. Having online product configurators will help the customer to fill out what they know and let the rules calculate whats the optimal solution to quote.
We have created a basic starting template for lifting tables that you can use to get started in the right direction.
This template is also good for explaining the difference between user inputs and configuration rules and formulas.
When developing functionality in an app there are many design challenges for the developer. One of the most important ones that determines how easy / hard the entire solution architecture is to develop and maintain over time is how well each function / module / class that is created hides the complexity within.
With a class based definition of CAD assemblies in a web configurator there are two main strategies to choose from: Property driven or interaction driven assembly.
Read More “Configure CAD assemblies – properties VS mouse interaction”
Would you like to develop a online CAD configurators that automatically exports STEP-files of your assemblies?
The CAD visualization in DynaMaker can be exported as step in two main ways:
Do you already have your own 2D & 3D files? Then it’s very easy to reuse them in DynaMaker without remodeling them again. If there are parts in your product that remain unchanged regardless of the configuration (“static”), you can reuse your 2D & 3D files in DynaMaker for them, so that you can focus on parametric parts and others in your DynaMaker application. Learn more about this!
Read More “How to use 3D visualization files (.stp, .gltf and .stl) in your online CAD configurator”
Working with multi model configurations can be tricky. One way to simplify things is to create a predefined sequence of products where each new item connects to the next in a predictable way. This can be used for creating conveyors or similar and we have created a starting template just for that.
We often get asked about the IT structure and systems needed to make product configuration and process automation happen. How are different parts connected to each other? Which departments in the company uses which systems? And how do they relate to the flow of products from purchase to delivery? Have a look at this IT map for manufacturing companies.
