VendorCADBe the supplier who gets designed in first.
Your customers are comparison-shopping. Give them a configurator: they size the part, see the geometry, download STEP immediately, and keep designing while other suppliers are still parsing a PDF.
How to engage
Checklist. Walkthrough. Call. Pilot.
Pick the next step that fits — from a one-page checklist to a Validation Pilot.
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Designed-In Checklist
Confirm family fit and STEP readiness.
02
Schedule a call
We screen-share configure → 3D → STEP → quote.
03
Discovery call
Scope one family and timeline.
04
Validation Pilot
Done-for-you on one product family.
In the live demo
One pass: configure → live 3D → STEP → quote. No fake metrics.
Configure
Size the part with the knobs buyers would use.
Live 3D
Watch geometry update as rules apply.
STEP download
Export-ready solids when the configuration passes gates.
Quote inbox
Exact-spec request lands with the configuration attached.
Tour the manufacturer App.
Dashboard through CAD, rules, publish, share, and quote inbox.
Screenshots from the live tenant.
Summit Pipeworks — the same workspace you can open in the demo.
Branded share link
Live 3D preview
Rules block invalid configs
Quote → App inbox
Built for the RFQ race.
- Manufacturers with repeatable, rule-bound product families in multi-bid RFQs
- Champions who own win rate / designed-in placement (owner, sales, or eng lead)
- Teams ready for a Validation Pilot (DFY, one family) before expanding the catalog
PDF to five suppliers. Wait. Guess.
- Download a long dimension PDF and second-guess whether every field is right
- Send it to five suppliers and wait. Each engineer interprets it to the best of their ability
- Ambiguity is baked in before anyone builds a model
- A STEP comes back eventually, maybe, and maybe it matches what they meant
- Only then can they drop it into the assembly and keep working: friction, delay, and doubt, five times over
See it. Get STEP. Keep designing.
- Customer configures on your site and sees the geometry, so the request is unambiguous
- Downloads STEP immediately, drops it into their assembly, and keeps working now
- Quote request goes in with the exact spec attached
- You win because their design is built around your part while other suppliers are still parsing a PDF
Both halves: higher win rate for you, and clear geometry for their customer.
Config in. Exact-spec quote out.
Their customer locks the geometry. The frozen request lands in your inbox with the STEP attachment.
Frozen STEP in. Adjustable recipe. STEP they can use.
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One frozen STEP
Your correct part at one size, shop conventions and all. Ground truth we build against.
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Parametric recipe
We rebuild so dimensions are knobs and related geometry recalculates. That parameterization is the product.
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Web knobs
Sliders on your site send numbers to those variables. Customer sizes the part; live 3D updates.
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Fresh STEP out
They download a ready-to-use STEP into their assembly and quote with the exact spec. You get designed in first.
Know DriveWorks?
Same configure job. Designed-in STEP.
Same configure job. VendorCAD ships a branded share link with designed-in STEP.
Sales opens the link mid-call. Buyers see live 3D as rules apply.
When the configuration passes gates, they download manufacturing-ready STEP.
Quote requests land with the exact spec attached, ready for the App inbox.
Where first-to-STEP wins the RFQ.
Beachhead families we prove first. Sales share links mid-call, then expand the catalog.
Pipes & fittings
Buyer sizes diameter, length, ends, downloads STEP, and keeps designing while other shops still read the PDF.
See use case →
Enclosures
Size, cutouts, and mounting with live geometry. Exact-spec quote with clear dimensions.
See use case →
Dealer quote tools
Branded configurators mid-call. Customer sees the model and can design-in before the call ends.
See use case →
Objections, answered early.
VendorCAD sits on top of your parametric product rules. Engineers keep their CAD seats and PLM. Approved options become a web configurator so buyers can see geometry and download STEP without opening a CAD ticket.
Same configure job: size the part, validate rules, move toward a quote. VendorCAD is built around a branded share link, live 3D, and manufacturing-ready STEP so sales can get you designed in mid-call. Start with the live demo or a Validation Pilot on one family.
Both. The browser uses a lightweight 3D preview (GLB). When the configuration passes export gates, buyers download manufacturing-ready STEP solids, plus structured parameter data so the quote carries the exact spec.
VendorCAD is a CAD-backed configurator for manufacturers who need specification lock in multi-bid RFQs. It encodes manufacturable rules and emits STEP for assembly design-in.
Next step
Start with a Validation Pilot.
One product family, done-for-you. We prove the share link with you, then decide on a catalog.