Solution Delivers Kitchen & Bath Cabinet Design Blocks for Convenient Use within AutoCAD by Builders and Other Home Designers
Columbus, Ohio (PRWeb) February 19, 2007 -- TDCI Inc. (TDCI), a leading enterprise software solution provider, today announced that Merillat Industries, LLC (Merillat), one of North America's largest cabinet manufacturers, is now shipping their next generation Merillat AutoCAD Design System based on TDCI's BuyDesign Spec-In platform, with content generated using TDCI's BuyDesign Flex3D CAD automation engine. The Merillat AutoCAD Design System allows a builder's home designer to select various cabinets from the Merillat catalog and insert associated AutoCAD design blocks directly into their drawing, then output a complete product schedule for easy quote request and ordering.
Merillat is an industry leader in providing this type of AutoCAD-compatible solution to builders, architects, and other professional home designers. "By delivering our product content to home designers in this convenient format, we have leapfrogged our competitors, making it extremely easy to select and specify our cabinets as part of the home design process," says Ray Pate, Merillat's Manager, Interactive Services. "TDCI's products make our Merillat AutoCAD Design System possible. In addition to providing the delivery vehicle for designers, they allow us to automatically generate the product content in a fraction of the time it would take using manual methods."
The Merillat AutoCAD Design System can be requested online by home designers on Merillat's web site at www.merillatbusiness.com
Merillat's approach to deploying BuyDesign Spec-in is to deliver a catalog of pre-generated design blocks for every SKU in a product line. As an alternative, manufacturers can deliver BuyDesign Configurator and BuyDesign Flex2D along with BuyDesign Spec-In to guide designers through dynamic generation of design blocks as part of the Spec-In process.
TDCI has been working with Merillat for several years - this is the fourth generation of the Merillat AutoCAD Design System solution. Until now, the AutoCAD application has been a custom solution, but is now delivered on the standard BuyDesign Spec-In platform.
About Merillat
Based in Adrian, Mich., Merillat Industries, LLC, has been providing quality cabinetry since 1946. With nine manufacturing plants located throughout the United States, Merillat has grown to become one of the nation's largest cabinet manufacturers and the number one builder preferred cabinet. Merillat offers the best selection of stylish, quality products at a variety of price levels. Merillat is leading the industry in consumer research to better understand what new home shoppers are looking for when purchasing a home. Merillat is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of the National Association of Home Builders, Women's Council, member of the Color Marketing Institute and National Kitchen and Bath Association.
About TDCI and BuyDesign
TDCI is an enterprise solution provider that specializes in helping manufacturers and their distributors streamline the buying process for customized products. TDCI's BuyDesign™ software is a comprehensive sales and configuration solution developed to help companies increase sales by becoming 'easy to do business with' and improve profitability by reducing order processing time, cost, and errors. BuyDesign provides modular components for guided product selection and configuration, product visualization, quoting and ordering, drawing generation, and status inquiry. It also includes applications for front-end specification capture from within popular design products such as AutoCAD and others. For more information about TDCI and BuyDesign, visit www.tdci.com.
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