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Morphological Search: Bulletproof Your Quotes with FindSimilar
Accelerate cost estimation by leveraging your manufacturing history.
The new FindSimilar feature redefines multi-criteria search by directly analyzing the 3D geometry of your components. From a simple STEP file, the system instantly detects morphologically similar parts across your database, enabling you to anchor new quotations in proven, real-world production data.
- Analogy-based estimation: Instantly identify past projects with comparable technical characteristics to dramatically increase the accuracy and reliability of your cost calculations.
- Knowledge capitalization: Eliminate the "blank page" effect by transforming historical production data into a fast, factual decision-making accelerator.
- Immediate time-to-value: Slash quotation lead times while ensuring the profitability of future production runs.
Less uncertainty, more agility. With FindSimilar, experience becomes your most powerful competitive advantage.
Drive Competitiveness: Capitalize on Subcontracting Costs
Turn external spend into a strategic performance lever.
Structure and enhance your subcontracting services by defining trade-specific competencies paired with automated, volume-based pricing. Centralize materials, supplies, and services within a single, market-aligned pricing repository that reflects real-world cost conditions with total fidelity.
- Unified source of truth: Access all subcontracting and supply rates instantly to enable fluid quotation workflows.
- Automated pricing intelligence: Protect your margins through the automatic application of tiered pricing and vendor-specific expertise.
- Synchronized consistency: Ensure total alignment between commercial offers and actual production costs for precise, reliable financial control.
Stop managing outsourcing as a constraint. Transform it into a catalyst for competitiveness and long-term performance.
Integrate Material Waste to Protect Your Margins
Align quotations and procurement with shop-floor reality.
Material waste rate management allows you to anticipate consumption beyond theoretical quantities, accounting for manufacturing variables and potential non-conformities. Define waste parameters—as a fixed value or a percentage—to generate material requirements that mirror your actual production environment.
- Controlled costing: Factor predictable material losses directly into your quotations to eliminate costly underestimations and safeguard your bottom line.
- Secure procurement: Fine-tune purchasing volumes to ensure production continuity without the risk of shortages or dead stock.
Don’t just manage production variances—anticipate them. Quote with confidence and produce with total peace of mind.
Maximize Waste Value with Shaving Cost Recovery
Turn material loss into a measurable competitive edge.
Factoring in shaving costs allows you to fully integrate machining reality into your quotations. Based on the finished part volume, TopSolid automatically calculates the volume of generated chips and credits their resale value directly within your cost estimation.
- Intelligent recovery: Transform machining waste into tangible economic value instead of accepting it as a pure material loss.
- Optimized material costs: Reduce overall raw material costs by systematically integrating shaving resale revenue.
- Quoting precision: Fine-tune your quotations with greater cost granularity—a decisive advantage in high-pressure markets.
Every gram counts. Recover value from every chip to secure your margins and strengthen long-term competitiveness.
Industrialize Your Quoting with Advanced Macros
Drive speed, reliability, and consistency across all cost estimations.
The Pro extension unlocks Macro functionality, enabling you to build pre-configured machining cycle templates. These robust blueprints serve as reusable foundations perfectly tailored to your production methods. By extracting dimensional data directly from part drawings, manual input—and the inherent risk of error—is eliminated.
- One-click data extraction: Seamlessly pull dimensions directly from the part drawing to populate your calculations, eliminating the need for tedious manual re-entry.
- Leverage proven methods: Reuse validated models for recurring jobs or part families to ensure total consistency across all quotations.
- Major productivity gains: Transform your quoting process into an agile methodology capable of responding instantly—even to complex requests.
Deliver uniform, reliable quotations fully aligned with your manufacturing standards.
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