Developer Guide

  • How to create a landing page for product configurators

    If you are targeting sales and distributors in a customer portal, or lead generation direct from the website, you usually need a landing page to provide a starting point for the user. We recommend having a dedicated page for this with a clear headline and a presentation of the tools the user can use to…

  • How to setup a customer portal for configured products

    Having a customer portal, or B2B e-commerce, on your site can really help with getting more engagement, sales and quotation requests from your customers and distributors. There are however many ways to setup your customer portal to get the proper automation and workflows. Therefore we will cover our favorites in this article.

  • Free CAD file conversion online: STEP to binary GLTF

    When developing a CAD configurator intended to be used online in a e-commerce or a website you really need to have lightweight 3D files in a compressed format. Since state of the art in lightweight and compressed 3D format today is the binary version GLB of GLTF file format, we have created the GLBIFYER as…

  • What is visual product configuration?

    When you want sell a product in more variations than small, medium and large, you usually need some way to guide the user and handle the available variations. This is where product configuration software comes in to help the users make choices and verify that it’s possible to combine the choices in the requested way.…

  • How to develop modules that hide complexity

    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.

  • Configure CAD assemblies – properties VS mouse interaction

    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.

  • Generating STEP-files from online CAD geometry

    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:

  • How to use 3D visualization files (.stp, .gltf and .stl) in your online CAD configurator

    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…

  • IT Map for Manufacturing Companies

    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…

  • Start fast with CAD configurator templates

    With the increasing demand for customized products, providing your customers with a web-based and easy-to-use configurator for your product is profitable in many ways. Instant quotations, significantly reduced strain on the sales and engineering personnel, and high-quality input for manufacturing are just some of the benefits!