TopSolid'Cqs

The Cloud-Powered Cost Intelligence Engine That Unlocks the Value of Your Technical Data

See also TopSolid'Web Configurator

TopSolid’Cqs (Cloud Quote Service) is a SaaS solution hosted on Microsoft Azure that transforms industrial cost estimation. More than just a quoting tool, it is an intelligent costing engine that automatically links your design BOMs with your pricing rules, reseller catalogs, and sustainability indicators.

One Platform. Multiple Stakeholders.

  • For Engineering Teams (Design-to-Cost): Instantly assess the financial impact of every design decision directly within TopSolid 7. Quickly evaluate how material choices, thickness, hole count, and other factors affect costs—empowering engineers to optimize costs from the earliest design stages. Compatible with TopSolid’Design, TopSolid’Steel, TopSolid’Wood, and other TopSolid applications.
  • For TopSolid’Web Configurator: Deliver accurate, dynamic, and continuously updated pricing to your online configurator—all processed seamlessly in the background, ensuring a smooth customer experience.
  • For Your Sales Network and Distributors: Manage commercial catalogs, distributor-specific pricing, and country-based discounts in a secure, multi-catalog, multi-currency environment. This ensures consistent and controlled pricing across your entire sales network.

How TopSolid'Cqs Turns Engineering Data into Business Value

Automatic Technical Costing

  • Engineering-driven precision: Stop relying on rough estimates. TopSolid'Cqs analyzes the actual geometric features of your 3D models and engineering drawings to generate highly accurate manufacturing costs.
  • Instead of using fixed prices, TopSolid'Cqs calculates costs based on CAD-derived manufacturing parameters, such as laser cutting length (cost per meter), number of bends (cost per bend), unfolded sheet area (material cost per square meter), and much more.
  • Every quotation reflects the true manufacturing effort required in your workshop, ensuring that costs are mathematically aligned with production reality.

A Standardized and Objective Costing Methodology

  • Reliable calculation rules: Remove subjective estimates and inconsistencies between departments. TopSolid'Cqs uses a rigorous, rule-based costing engine that ensures identical calculations, no matter who prepares the quotation.
  • Consistent results for every iteration: Whether you are reviewing the first design proposal or the tenth engineering revision, the pricing logic remains stable, objective, and reproducible. Protect your margins with consistent costing, free from personal interpretation or negotiation bias.

Complete Separation Between Engineering and Pricing Data

  • Protect your pricing strategy without limiting collaboration.
  • Engineering teams can design freely without access to purchasing costs, while sales teams receive accurate quotations without seeing CAD calculation methods.
  • Secure cloud processing: Your CAD files always stay within your engineering environment. Only the quantitative Bill of Materials (BOM) is securely sent to the cloud, where TopSolid'Cqs adds pricing intelligence before returning the calculated value.

Advanced Distribution Network Management

  • Manage your commercial strategy with robust native support for reseller networks and multiple pricing catalogs.
  • The same product can be sold through different channels, each with its own pricing policy.
  • TopSolid'Cqs lets you create dedicated reseller profiles linked to specific catalogs, promotional campaigns, or annual price lists.
  • Apply percentage-based or fixed-value price adjustments, and restrict access to base prices for non-administrator users.

Absolute Data Reliability with Alias Technology

  • Eliminate duplicate items and ensure accurate costing across different data sources.
  • TopSolid'Cqs automatically maps supplier references, external CAD data, and your own internal part numbers using its centralized Alias (Correspondence) technology.
  • The system resolves reference discrepancies automatically, ensuring reliable BOM consolidation and precise quotation accuracy.

Simplified Administration with Excel Import/Export

  • Update thousands of items, prices, resellers, or catalogs in seconds using familiar Excel (XLSX) or CSV files.
  • Keep your pricing database up to date—no technical expertise required.
  • Simply edit your pricing tables in your preferred spreadsheet, import them into TopSolid'Cqs, and instantly deploy the changes across your entire ecosystem (sales network, online configurator, etc.).

Return on Investment (ROI)

Without TopSolid'Cqs

With TopSolid'Cqs

Subjective cost estimation: Quotes depend on manual expertise, leading to inconsistent pricing and variations from one estimator to another.

Objective costing: A robust, mathematical valuation engine ensures neutral, repeatable, and fully consistent pricing every time.

Engineering overload: Design teams are burdened with constantly tracking fluctuating manufacturing costs during product development.

Digital continuity: Financial rules are automatically applied to native CAD geometry, allowing engineers to focus entirely on design.

Quoting bottlenecks: Estimating each new design variant consumes valuable engineering time with minimal added value.

Empowered sales network: Sales teams and partners gain instant, secure access to validated pricing—no need to rely on engineering resources.

Slow response times: Engineering departments become bottlenecks when pricing custom modifications or customer-specific variants.

High-performance cloud processing: Dedicated cloud infrastructure handles pricing requests asynchronously, delivering exceptional speed and scalability.

Disconnected workflows: Manual data transfers between quotations, CAD, and production increase the risk of errors and inconsistencies.

End-to-end digital integration: A seamless digital thread automatically connects engineering, costing, sales, and manufacturing across your entire digital factory.

One Solution. Every Industry.

Engineered to serve a wide range of industries, including:

  • Building & Architectural Joinery: Technical doors, windows, verandas, guardrails, and complex staircases.
  • Outdoor Living: Bioclimatic pergolas, awnings, fencing, and metal structures.
  • Industrial Equipment: Trailers, conveyors, tanks, platforms, and specialized technical equipment.
  • Interior Fit-Out & Furniture: Professional kitchens, wardrobes, counters, and custom vehicle interiors.

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