Kubuz

Designing complex products.Making them configurable.

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I design machines, structures and technical products, and I automate CAD or build configurators when the product needs it.

That can be a complete mechanical design, from concept to production drawings. Or extra drafting capacity for a team that already has the project in hand.

Drafting Configurators See the work

01—What I offer

Black steel stair seen from below, with rod railings, round lamps and a roof light. Drafting Production drawings and 3D design For steel, sheet-metal and machine builders with more work than drafters. 3D models in Autodesk InventorProduction and assembly drawings, flat patterns and parts listsA complete design, or extra capacity in your team A fixed price per job or a day rate. A price and a date after one email. See drafting
Steel stair with UPN stringers and handrails up to a landing in a loft.
Configurators From configuration to production For manufacturers who sell the same product in different sizes, again and again. Your customer picks sizes and options and sees the price at onceA quote as a PDF, and the request in your inboxSTEP, DXF flat patterns and a parts list for the workshop Product scan €950. A configurator from €9,500. See configurators

Do you have the same product drawn again and again, in other sizes? Then it belongs in a configurator. See configurators

02—Showcase

Products you can configure yourself today, from a standard flange to a steel stair, a cabinet wall and a lamp shade. They all run on the same engine: every choice rebuilds the part, and the price follows from what has to be made. More are added regularly.

Steelwork

Steel staircase

Straight, L or U, solved from the floor height, checked against EN ISO 14122-3 and priced from its cut lists.

Configure
Steelwork

Balustrade

Draw the floor edge with corners and arcs. Bars, glass or cables, checked against NBN B 03-004.

Configure
Furniture

Frame cabinet

A bolted cabinet of square steel tube, every shelf checked for load and the bolt kit listed.

Configure
Furniture

Irregular cabinet wall

A handle-less wall broken open by a field of boxes. The configurator lays out the grid and prices every plate.

Configure
Laser cutting

Laser-cut lamp shade

Plywood ribs slotted into two rings. Draw the profile, pick the wood and the ribs, get a flat-pack kit.

Configure
Stainless steel

Stainless worktop

Made to measure, with folded edges, sinks, tap holes and power sockets.

Configure
Sheet metal

Sheet metal transition

Cone, hopper or square-to-round, with the top off centre if needed and a flange at either end.

Configure
Standard part

DIN flange

Plate or blind flange to EN 1092-1, straight from the standard's table.

Configure

Prices in the showcase are illustrative.

Open the showcase This for your product

04—Mechanical work

Stainless process machine on a steel frame, with a tall housing, a sloped hatch, pipework and two motors.

Stainless process machine

Steel process installation with hoppers, a platform, guard rails and two stairs. A figure stands on the platform.

Process platform

Steel bulk station with a hopper in a gantry, a grated platform, guard rails and a stair.

Bulk transfer station

Group of cylindrical tanks in a steel rack with three levels of guard rails and pipework on the roof.

Tank farm

Black steel stair seen from below, with rod railings, round lamps and a roof light.

Steel stair

Stainless kitchen island in a dark tiled room, with sinks, a hob, drawers and a large extraction hood.

Commercial kitchen

All

05—Selected

P.01 Inoxplus Inoxplus is a client that sells made-to-measure stainless steel. Their customers put together their own product in a configurator I built for them on Kubuz CPQ. Product choices, geometry, price and quotation all start from the same underlying model. Engineering software P.02 Configurable door system in Tacton and Inventor For a manufacturer of highly configurable doors I worked as CPQ engineer on the more complex product structures in Autodesk Inventor and Tacton. Product configuration 2023 P.03 From configuration into manufacturing For Technics & Applications I worked on a configuration solution for slatted pool covers. Product configuration

06—Writing

What I learn in projects about product configuration, CAD automation and the road to the workshop.

Someone using the Inoxplus configurator on a monitor: a stainless worktop with sink, hob, dimensions and an options panel.
Essay

From kernel to configurator

Early in October I wrote about the fabrication kernel I am working on. I ended by saying the next step was to design with it. That has happened. The kernel runs in Kubuz CPQ, the system Inoxplus uses to let its products be configured, and in a showcase anyone can open.
Tacton Studio with dynamic blocks beside the Kubuz app, which has generated an AutoCAD drawing of five rectangles from a Tacton XML report.
Reference

From Tacton configuration to an AutoCAD drawing

A configured product in Tacton already knows what has to be built: which parts exist, what their dimensions are, and where they sit.
Isometric illustration of a product model in exploded view: stacked layers above a configured cabinet, with drawing, bill of materials and sheet part as derived output.
Reference

What belongs in a configurable product model?

A configurable product model is easy to underestimate.
The product range on showcase.kubuz.net: a stainless worktop, a DIN flange, an irregular cabinet wall, a laser-cut lamp shade, a sheet metal transition and a stair.
Essay

Fabrication kernel, part 3: putting it to work

Part 2 ended with one sentence: next step is designing with it. So that is what I did.

All writing