Standardize cost estimates, capitalize on expertise
Accurately calculating manufacturing costs and maintaining consistent pricing can be challenging when product configurations, production requirements and sales conditions vary. Manual estimates and disconnected pricing data can lead to inconsistent quotations, time-consuming calculations and reduced control over profit margins.
TopSolid'Cqs transforms engineering data into reliable cost calculations and structured pricing. By analysing product geometry and applying predefined costing rules, it helps manufacturers standardise their calculations, manage pricing across sales channels and provide consistent quotations. Integrated with TopSolid 7 and TopSolid'Web Configurator, it connects engineering, costing and sales to support a more efficient and reliable pricing process.
Why choose TOPSOLID?
Improve manufacturing cost accuracy
Calculate costs from actual product geometry and manufacturing parameters to obtain more reliable estimates aligned with production requirements.
Standardise costing and protect margins
Apply consistent calculation rules across teams and design revisions to reduce subjective estimates and maintain control over pricing.
Simplify pricing across sales networks
Manage multiple pricing catalogs, currencies, reseller profiles and commercial adjustments within a centralised pricing environment.
Connect engineering and sales
Link technical product data with costing and sales processes, including TopSolid'Web Configurator, to support consistent pricing from design to quotation.
TopSolid'Cqs Features
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 Resellers: Manage commercial catalogs, reseller-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.).
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