Tacton Design Automation Engineer enables design engineers to quickly and interactively capture your end-customer requirements and automatically create customized 3D models and 2D drawings from inside your CAD software.

Tacton Design Automation Engineer is a natural part of your engineers’ daily design work. It allows the design engineers to start a configuration model in just two clicks. The configuration models can be stored in a model library.

Tacton Design Automation Engineer will automate your routine design process and save time. The generated CAD documents are based on product rules and data defined in a design automation project created in Tacton Design Automation Studio.

FULLY EMBEDDED IN CADTacton Design Automation Engineer comes fully embedded in your CAD application, so you can leverage your existing CAD investment. It allows your design engineers to interactively capture customer requirements and automatically receive feedback on incompatible choices and how to resolve potential conflicts.

SIMPLE AND USER-FRIENDLY POINT-AND-CLICK INTERFACETacton Design Automation Engineer offers a simple and user-friendly way of defining the customer requirements that lets anyone without previous product knowledge explore and find their optimal solution.

The end-user dialog is highly intuitive and informative. This makes it possible for the end user to know in advance which choices are possible, which ones result in conflicts and which ones are invalid. Your end users can enter input in any preferred order. This means they can configure complex products with total flexibility without having to stop to make corrections.

A DRAMATICALLY FASTER QUOTATION PROCESSAccurate, high-quality proposals with supporting documentation are generated automatically. This speeds up the quotation process dramatically, keeping you one step ahead of the competition.

ALWAYS PROPOSES THE OPTIMAL SOLUTIONIf you select a conflicting or invalid option, Tacton CPQ automatically proposes the best alternative or an explanation of why your option cannot be selected. The proposed configuration solution is always optimized and complete. As a result, you don’t have to provide input to all the end-user options to obtain an optimal and complete solution.

SAVES DESIGN PROCESS TIMETacton Design Automation Engineer enables you to automatically update numerous parameters in 3D models and 2D drawings and automate the design process based on the configuration result. With the export feature, you can save the configured 3D models and 2D drawings in all supported CAD file formats with customized names and save locations based on the configuration result.

You can also generate Microsoft Word and Excel documents based on the configuration result to automatically produce customized quotations and bills of materials.

INTEGRATES YOUR EXISTING ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONSTacton Design Automation Engineer offers a standard integration connector to external systems to capture data and documents during the configuration process, such as product information and CAD documents from ERP, PDM and PLM systems.

It also offers customization capabilities so you can customize and complement the standard functionality with customer specific add-ons to a standard product.

Fully imbedded in CADSimple and user-friendly point-and-click interface

A dramatically faster quotation processAlways proposes the optimal solution

Integrates your existing enterprise applications

Tacton Design Automation EngineerGenerate CAD files based on customers’ needs

KEY FEATURES• Compatible with all Tacton standard products• Out-of-the-box installation• Custom translation for the complete application• Supports exports of both native and all file formats

supported by the CAD software• Contains a standard API for add-on development• Can integrate with external systems such as ERP,

CRM, PDM and PLM systems• Supports customer-specific add-ons so you can

customize and complement the standard functionality

GAME-CHANGING CONFIGURATION• Constraint-based configuration means dramatically

fewer rules• Always presents the solution that best meets the

customers’ needs• Highly scalable – the stateless configuration engine

handles complex models and high user loads withease and speed

• All variables simultaneously considered. Ensuresvalid, error-free configuration – every time

• Automatic error resolution and no dead-ends

UPDATES• 3D CAD such as dimensions, suppressions,

documents and configurations• 2D CAD such as scale, position, size and visibility• General such as properties and macros

MAINTENANCE & SUPPORT• No programming or IT expertise needed• Product data is maintained separately from

configuration rules making it fast and easy tointroduce and update products

• Access to Knowledge Base online support

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The tool enables you to set up detailed product definitions that capture all the engineering logic relevant to your products.

Tacton Design Automation Studio is typically used by design engineers or product managers with a deep technical knowledge of CAD and of the products whose design process will be automated.

The Studio manages four distinct tasks:• Validating product data• Defining configuration rules• Structuring the end-user interface• Connecting with your CAD model

It contains a comprehensive set of modeling concepts and debugging tools as well as a fully functional runtime designed to make your configuration project run as smoothly as possible.

FULLY EMBEDDED IN CADThe Studio comes fully embedded in your CAD application, so you can leverage your existing CAD investment. It allows your design engineers to interactively capture customer requirements and automatically receive feedback on incompatible choices and how to resolve potential conflicts.

EASY TO IMPLEMENT, EASY TO MAINTAINThe Studio environment is highly intuitive and easy to use. With point-and-click features and auto-complete operations, no programming knowledge or IT expertise is needed to set up and maintain your design automation project.

Because configuration rules, product data and user interface data are stored separately, each of these areas can be changed independently without having to update or change the other areas. This is unique to Tacton, and means that you can quickly and easily make updates to the portfolio as products are introduced or evolve.

DISTRIBUTED RULE MAINTENANCEAreas of product knowledge can be set up as separate modules with clear interfaces and areas of responsibility. This means you can allocate maintenance and support across your organization to best match product and commercial expertise.

COMPATIBLE WITH ALL STANDARD TACTON PRODUCTSThe Tacton Design Automation products are fully compatible with all other standard Tacton products. This makes it possible to use the configuration logic and data without any manual work, and have seamless integrations between the different systems within your organization.

SOLVES THE CONFIGURATION CHALLENGES THAT OTHERS CAN'TAt the heart of the solution, and what really sets Tacton apart, is a powerful, constraintsbased configuration engine built to handle the most challenging configuration environments. The complexity of your product portfolio will never be a limiting factor in an implementation of Tacton design automation.

Fully embedded in CADEasy to implement, easy to maintain

Distributed rule maintenanceCompatible with all standard Tacton Products

Solves the configuration challenges that other can't

Tacton Design Automation StudioSet up and connect product rules with CAD

KEY FEATURES

Modeling features• Structured and intuitive point-and-click modeling

environment• Handles large and complex configurations• Product data, rules and user interface layers

separated• Instant model validation with inspections• Rule documentation capabilities

CAD configurator features• Fully embedded Studio and runtime inside the CAD

environment• Structured and intuitive point-and-click CAD mapping

tool• Instant mapping validation with inspections• Rule documentation capabilities

Integrations to external calculations• Javascript• DLLs

GAME-CHANGING CONFIGURATION• Constraint-based configuration means dramatically

fewer rules• Always presents the solution that best meets the

customers’ needs• Highly scalable – the stateless configuration engine

handles complex models and high user loads withease and speed

• All variables simultaneously considered. Ensuresvalid, error-free configuration – every time

• Automatic error resolution and no dead-ends

MAINTENANCE & SUPPORT• No programming or IT expertise needed• Product data is maintained separately from

configuration rules making it fast and easy tointroduce and update products

• Access to Knowledge Base online support

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Tacton Design Automation Server enables you to benefit from design automation capabilities in your front-end and web-based applications by automating the task of creating customized CAD models.

Tacton Design Automation Server lets you automate the generation of CAD documents based on the configuration in Tacton CPQ tools. The CAD documents can be used as visual 2D and 3D representations as well as quotation material. The CAD models can automatically be stored in your PDM or PLM system and later be used as production documentation.

Tacton Design Automation Server provides you with the design automation capabilities that are based on product rules and data defined by your product.

MANAGES REQUESTS FROM TACTON FRONT-END APPLICATIONSTacton Design Automation Server manages design automation requests from any front-end system, with a standard integration to Tacton CPQ tools.

By receiving input results through its integrated web service, it generates CAD documents and then makes output available through the same web service back to the Tacton CPQ tools and/or PDM/PLM system.

With its built-in queuing system, it manages several simultaneous configuration requests even while processing existing jobs.

COMPATIBLE WITH ALL STANDARD TACTON PRODUCTSThe Tacton Design Automation products are fully compatible with all other standard Tacton products. This makes it possible to reuse the configuration logic and data in several places, and have seamless integrations between the different systems.

SAVES DESIGN PROCESS TIMETacton Design Automation Server enables you to automatically update numerous parameters in 3D models and 2D drawings and automate the design process based on the configuration result.

With the export feature, you can save the configured 3D models and 2D drawings in all supported CAD file formats with customized names and save locations based on the configuration result.

You can also generate Microsoft Word and Excel documents based on the configuration result to automatically produce customized quotations and Bill of Materials.

INTEGRATES YOUR EXISTING ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONSTacton Design Automation Server offers a standard API which can connect to external systems to fetch and send data and documents during the configuration process, such as product information and CAD documents from ERP, PDM and PLM systems.

It also offers customization capabilities so you can customize and complement the standard functionality in the product with your own add-ins.

Manages requests from Tacton front-end applicationsCompatible with all standard Tacton products

Easy to implement, easy to maintainSaves design process time

Intergrates your existing enterprise applications

Tacton Design Automation ServerAutomate creation of customized CAD models

KEY FEATURES• Compatible with all Tacton standard products• Out-of-the-box installation• Built-in queue system• Handles requests through an integrated web service• Supports exports of both native and all standard file

formats supported by the CAD software• Contains a standard API for add-on development• Can integrate to external systems such as ERP, CRM,

PDM and PLM systems• Supports customer-specific add-ons so you can

customize and complement the standard functionality

GAME-CHANGING CONFIGURATION• Constraint-based configuration means dramatically

fewer rules• Always presents the solution that best meets the

customers’ needs• Highly scalable – the stateless configuration engine

handles complex models and high user loads withease and speed

• All variables simultaneously considered. Ensuresvalid, error-free configuration – every time

• Automatic error resolution and no dead-ends

MAINTENANCE & SUPPORT• No programming or IT expertise needed• Product data is maintained separately from

configuration rules making it fast and easy tointroduce and update products

• Access to Knowledge Base online support

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Tacton Design Automation Batch enables you to batch run design automation projects defined in Tacton Design Automation Studio. You can quickly and automatically generate a large amount of variants of CAD document.

It is typically used by anyone that needs to generate large amounts of CAD documents, for example product catalog pictures or 3D models and 2D drawings for stock components to be stored in PDM or ERP systems.

PROCESS ALL YOUR VALID CONFIGURATIONSTacton Design Automation Batch produces documents for all valid configurations based on the following input:

• A range of customer requirements in a wizard thatgenerates documents for all valid configurations.

• A set of input files (Tacton Configurator state files)that represent a configuration for which resultdocuments will be generated.

SAVE TIME BY AUTOMATING YOUR ROUTINE DESIGNTacton Design Automation Batch enables you to:

• Update a large amount of parameters in 3D modelsand 2D drawings to automate the design processbased on the configuration result.

• Automatically save the configured 3D models and 2Ddrawings in all file formats provided bySOLIDWORKS, with customized names, customizedsave location, etc. based on the configuration result.

• Update and save and Microsoft Word and Exceldocuments based on the configuration result,automating the production of customized quotationsand bills of materials.

INTEGRATES YOUR EXISTING ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONSTacton Design Automation Batch offers a standard API which can connect to external systems to fetch and send data and documents during the configuration process, such as product information and CAD documents from ERP, PDM and PLM systems.

It also offers customization capabilities so you can customize and complement the standard functionality in the product with your own add-ins.

Process all your valid configurationsSave time by automating your routine design

Integrate with your existing enterprise systems

Tacton Design Automation BatchBatch run your design automation project

KEY FEATURES• Compatible with all Tacton standard products• Out-of-the-box installation• Built-in queue system• Supports exports of both native and all standard file

formats supported by the CAD software• Contains a standard API for add-on development• Can integrate to external systems such as ERP, CRM,

PDM and PLM systems• Supports customer-specific add-ons so you can

customize and complement the standard functionality

GAME-CHANGING CONFIGURATION• Constraint-based configuration means dramatically

fewer rules• Always presents the solution that best meets the

customers’ needs• Highly scalable – the stateless configuration engine

handles complex models and high user loads withease and speed

• All variables simultaneously considered. Ensuresvalid, error-free configuration – every time

• Automatic error resolution and no dead-ends

MAINTENANCE & SUPPORT• No programming or IT expertise needed• Product data is maintained separately from

configuration rules making it fast and easy tointroduce and update products

• Access to Knowledge Base online support

AVAILABILITY• SOLIDWORKS®

About TactonTacton Systems is the world leader in solutions for Configure, Price and Quote (CPQ), also known as sales and product configuration. Tacton’s solutions make it dramatically simpler to design, configure and sell products and services. The solutions integrate easily with surrounding systems and have standard integrations for many leading e-commerce, ERP, CRM, PDM, PLM, and CAD systems. Tacton is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with customers and resellers across the globe. Customers currently using Tacton’s solutions include ABB, Aker, Meyn and Siemens. Read more at www.tacton.com

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