Benefits of User-guided Costing

User-guided cost models allow you to cost a part based on any of the following:

• A paper drawing or electronic image of the part

• A physical instance of the part that you can examine or measure

• A CAD model of a similar part

User-guided costing is useful for suppliers, cost engineers, and designers:

• Suppliers can develop quotes in advance of obtaining a CAD model.

• Cost engineers can perform teardowns of competitive products.

• Designers can evaluate design modifications that they haven’t fully modeled.