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. Higher win rate for you. No guesswork for them.
Built for manufacturers who lose deals waiting on STEP
Live demo tenant: Summit Pipeworks demo — walk the real product, not a pitch deck.
Verified product path
Screenshots from the Summit Pipeworks walkthrough — the same seeded tenant you can open now. No invented logos or ROI.
Branded share link
Live 3D preview
Rules block invalid configs
Quote → App inbox
Today — from the customer's side
With VendorCAD
For you (who pays): Higher win rate. Comparison-shopping buyers design around the supplier who delivers a correct model instantly — before competitors respond.
For their customer (who uses it): No more PDF guesswork or back-and-forth decoding dimensions. See it, get the STEP file, keep designing. Quote requests carry the exact spec.
How it works
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Your correct part at one size — shop conventions and all. Ground truth to build against, not the adjustable product.
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We rebuild so dimensions are knobs and related geometry recalculates. That’s the product — not a prettier photograph.
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Sliders on your site send numbers to those variables. Customer sizes the part; live 3D updates — no dimension PDF.
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They download a ready-to-use STEP into their assembly and quote with the exact spec — you get designed in first.
Product capabilities
Modules sized by the job — each with what it does and why it helps you get designed in first.
Capability
We rebuild your frozen STEP as a recipe: named variables and relationships — not a fixed photograph of one size.
Why it matters: Parameterization is the product. One model becomes thousands of valid parts; the website just turns the knobs.
Capability
Buyers and sales pick approved options in a branded browser experience — mid-call, on a share link.
Why it matters: Each slider is wired to a model variable. The site doesn’t know CAD; it sends numbers to the knobs we exposed.
Capability
Live 3D preview as options change. Rotate, inspect, and confirm before anyone exports.
Why it matters: No ambiguity about what they asked for — they see it before the quote goes out.
Capability
Only approved combinations ship. Constraints cut invalid configurations before they hit engineering.
Why it matters: Trustworthy STEP — designed-in only happens if the model is correct.
Capability
When they’re happy, the backend rebuilds their exact config and exports STEP — the universal CAD handshake.
Why it matters: They need geometry for their assembly, not a picture. STEP works in SolidWorks, Inventor, Creo, NX — anyone can use it.
Capability
Publish families, manage share links, and keep catalog state under ops control — not a shared drive.
Why it matters: You own the configurator that locks spec — not a one-off email attachment.
Use cases
Built for manufacturers with repeatable, rule-bound product families in multi-bid quote cycles — not one-off job shops.
Buyer sizes diameter, length, ends — downloads STEP and keeps designing while other shops still read the PDF.
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Size, cutouts, and mounting with live geometry — exact-spec quote, no dimension-form ambiguity.
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Approved option sets on the web so dealers and OEMs design around your part first.
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Branded configurators mid-call — customer sees the model and can design-in before the call ends.
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Win the plant layout with the first usable STEP — then quote from the exact configuration.
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Common questions
No. VendorCAD sits on top of your parametric product rules. Engineers keep their CAD seats and PLM; VendorCAD exposes approved options as a web configurator so buyers can see geometry and download STEP without a CAD ticket.
Real files. The browser uses a lightweight 3D preview (GLB). When the configuration passes export gates, buyers download manufacturing-ready STEP solids immediately — plus structured parameter data so the quote carries the exact spec.
No. VendorCAD is a CAD-backed configurator for manufacturers who need specification lock in multi-bid RFQs — not a consumer cart. Generic ecommerce cannot encode manufacturable rules or emit STEP.
You send one correct STEP of a family at a fixed size — that’s the ground truth. We rebuild it as a parametric recipe (named knobs and relationships), wire those knobs to your web configurator, and prove instant STEP download + designed-in motion on a pilot before expanding the catalog.
Next step
Book a 15-minute walkthrough. Higher win rate. Comparison-shopping buyers design around the supplier who delivers a correct model instantly — before competitors respond.
