CustomCommerce Version 5.0 Released by Technicon
Product configuration system supplier TechniCon has released version 5.0 of CustomCommerce, its award-winning platform for delivering product data on the Web.TechniCon say that Version 5 adds new ways for customers to visualize highly-configurable products and makes it easier for manufacturers to provide localized systems for their international customers.
Using a new proprietary automation module, the CustomCommerce product configurator can parametrically drive Autodesk Inventor to dynamically build accurate 3D models of configured products.
Users can view and share 3D images of the products using DWF™ files generated from the Inventor models. Integrated into the configurator, the Autodesk DWF Viewer allows customers to zoom-in and examine products from any angle.
Realistic renderings produced by Inventor allow customers to see exactly the product they’ve specified.
The CustomCommerce product configurator also now integrates with CADENAS 3D CAD model data, to generate CAD models and drawings in a wide variety of file formats based on configurator selections.
CustomCommerce version 5 supports Lattice3D’s XVL® technology to quickly generate exploded and animated 3D part views of complex assemblies. These illustrate how components fit together and also help demonstrate the features and benefits of a product.
Other new features include a new localization scheme, which simplifies the process for deploying international catalog and configuration sites. Users can enter translations for items such as product names and descriptions into spreadsheets that can be imported directly into CustomCommerce.
There is also a new multi-catalog structure, which Technicon say makes it easier to publish localized versions of catalog and configuration sites from a common product catalog. Modifications made to products in the common catalog are automatically reflected in localized catalog sites.
A new module facilitates the creation of offline, DVD and CD-based versions of CustomCommerce Web sites. Localized versions of a site can be published to DVD or CD from a single master catalog.
