CADEF

CAtalogue DEFinition - CADEF

CADEF, CAtalogue DEFinition, is a commercial software tool built on for the Catalogue building process of the related industry enterprises, which provides a huge number of products with an enormous quantity of variants to the market. CADEF has been specially developed to define the product catalogues compliant with the ISO 10303-236 standard in a better way. This tool permits the creation of catalogue structures comprising price lists, inclusion of fabrics and finishing, product configurations, properties, and furniture products, of course. The innovation brought by the tool to the market is that it permits the association of AutoCAD© DWG files with the product card and it is able to link the parts of the products with the different layers defined inside the 3D DWG file. Therefore, CADEF can be used to generate catalogues performing associations between the parts of the product with the 3D AutoCAD© files.

CADEF does not use any data base technology to store the catalogue information. In its place it used a XML document as a medium to store that information and make it persistent. Thanks to this technology together with the possibilities that the XSL technology offers, it is possible to visualize the catalogue in a browser presented as a web page.

CADEF visualizes the catalogue in the browser using XSL example templates which transform the information contained in XML to a HTML document. To do so, when using that option you visualize for the first time your catalogue, CADEF creates a folder named XSL together with the files needed for its operation. Once the copy is finished, CADEF will open in the browser by default the XML document containing the information of the project. The catalogue will be visualized as it is indicated in the XSL templates.

CADEF allows the definition and management of all the possible specifications grouped by categories. Based in these categories and due the configuration process, the CADEF user could define the different variants a product could have. CADEF tool also supports the definition of expression rules. This experience is devoted to the product definition and configuration process. It supports the definition of rules allowing the inclusion and exclusion of product configurability.

NOTE: This software is a TRIAL version.
If you are interested in the full commercial version please contact Mrs. Maria José Nuñez of AIDIMA through e-mail: mjnunez@aidima.es

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