CAD configurators — gull system

Your engineers stop redrawing the same parts. You set the rules as Excel-style formulas, and the drawings, DXF, STEP and bill of materials for every order are produced automatically. Monthly subscription.

Price: 329 € per month, with a free 30-day trial and no commitment. The full price list is at https://gullsystem.com/en/pricing/.

Manual drawing compared with a configurator

Your engineers do not draw slowly. They just keep drawing almost the same thing.

An engineer opens a similar old model, retypes the dimensions and checks what that broke.

You fill in a form. Model, drawing and bill of materials update at once.

Edited by hand. A missed dimension turns up on the shop floor.

Still yours, it updates itself from the model and exports in one click.

Retyped into Excel by hand, last and in a hurry.

Generated from the model, so it matches what gets built.

The whole cycle again: model, drawing, DXF and bill of materials.

You change one number and generate again. It takes minutes.

Only an experienced engineer who knows that model.

Anyone, within the rules an engineer has set.

Savings over time

Both charts use the numbers from the calculator above and move with every change.

Time for the first model and for each further variant

Savings calculator

Set the values to match your company. No data is sent anywhere.

How long it takes today to adapt the nearest finished model to a new order, including checking the drawing, the DXF and the bill of materials. Do not count drawing from scratch.

The wage you enter is gross. It costs the employer 16 more in social security contributions, and that is the cost this calculator uses.

An estimate you set yourself. Only work that repeats can be automated; designing a new product cannot.

One engineer-hour, contributions included

An indicative calculation from the values you entered: freed hours times the hourly rate, employer contributions included. It is not cash by itself. It becomes money when the freed time turns into extra orders, or into a hire you do not need to make. It is not a quote and not a guaranteed result. The software price is not included; what you pay depends on which products and add-ons you pick.

An indicative calculation from the values you entered. It is not a quote and not a guaranteed result.

An indicative calculation from the values you entered: the same hours you work today, divided by the new time per order. It is not a quote and not a guaranteed result.

The gull system application

You set up the whole configurator in one application that connects to your CAD.

The model stays yours. gull system redraws nothing. It drives the assembly and drawings you already have, and you capture dimensions by clicking them in your CAD.

Nothing is programmed. Rules are Excel-style formulas and you lay out the form with the mouse.

After that you enter an order and the system generates the production files into your folders.

Output files

The files your production already works with.

Manufacturing drawing (PDF)

From your own drawing, with your title block, GD&T and dimensioning conventions.

DXF / DWG

Flat patterns for the laser or plasma cutter. Your nesting software reads them as they are.

STEP / 3D model

For suppliers, subcontractors and downstream CAM.

Bill of materials

Parts and materials exactly for the variant just generated.

Designed for engineers

Your own engineer sets it up, with no programmer.

Built like CAD

The app has the structure and logic of CAD, so an engineer picks it up quickly.

It does not draw for you

You make the geometry and the drawings. The system only drives them.

Only Excel-style formulas

No code for anyone to maintain. If you can write a formula in Excel, you can do this.

The know-how stays yours

The rules and the models are yours, and they are written down. They no longer live only in one person's head.

Input sources

You can enter orders the way you do today: in a form, in a spreadsheet or right in your CAD.

A form

Your sales team or your customer fills in a few fields. You design the form yourself, and the same one runs on the web.

Excel

The configurator processes every new row of your spreadsheet as an order, so nothing is retyped.

A form inside your CAD

The same form opens in your CAD panel, so the engineer never switches applications.

REST API / ERP

Your own system will send the orders straight through. We are building this one.

Walkthrough: capturing parameters from CAD, a rule, the order form and the output folders in gull system