The Challenge
Techno Automation's sales and design teams faced a significant bottleneck. Creating quotations for prospective customers required drafting complete, complex conveyor layouts in AutoCAD, calculating motor requirements, and determining overall dimensions. This process was time-consuming, repetitive, and slowed down the speed at which their sales team could respond to inquiries, while tying up valuable design engineers on routine drawing tasks.
Our Solution: Parametric AutoCAD Plugin
Spher Technologies developed a custom AutoCAD plugin specifically tailored for Techno Automation. The tool provides a user-friendly interface where the sales or design team can simply select or input the key parameters for the conveyor system.
Automated Drafts and Calculations
Based on these inputs, the plugin instantly generates the complete conveyor layout inside AutoCAD. It simultaneously performs all the necessary motor calculations and determines the exact overall dimensions required. The process requires almost entirely zero manual drawing, ensuring consistency and immediate output.
The Result
The new plugin provides a remarkably easy and fast way to generate quotations for prospective customers, directly increasing the sales team's capacity and responsiveness. Furthermore, the design engineers have been freed from incredibly repetitive and tedious work, allowing them to focus on custom engineering challenges rather than redrawing standard conveyor components.