In 2018 / 2019 we developed the design workflow 2020, which is currently still in use. This is a retro calculation of the costs for its development of the inital release.
The development of the current Design Workflow 2020 took about 245 development days for the initial release versions of all the technologies and integrations. This is excluding the 3D models.
Workflow 2020 | Approval website | ⚡108 days
👉 release version of 24/02/2020
- Research and development
- Approval page design
- Token based approval
- Unique hashed URL, sharable
- 2D image lightbox
- Annotation system
- Info section
- designer
- sales
- colours used
- Approval and Disapproval forms
- Site versioning system
- Cascading content updates
- Automatic Catalog detection system (Racproven, Prof, Acc, Tri …)
- Admin panel - release v1
- site actions
- admin panel profiles (Sales, Designer, Admin,…)
- Esko connections
Workflow 2020 | Adobe Illustrator 3D plugin - v1 | ⚡62 days
👉 Release version of 30/01/2020
- Research and development
- Bioracer template detection
- 3D engine for Adobe Illustrator
- limited, no flatlocks, no stitches, simple textures
- Bioracer VAR script integration for configurations
- Metadata readout and injection for 3dpc rendering
- Dev and Beta releases
- Release v1
Workflow 2020 | 3DPC render automation | ⚡70 days
👉 Release version on 06/02/2020
- Research and development
- Automatic asset rendering
- 2D images
- 3D view files
- PDF documents
- data files for approval sites
- Connection with Esko
- Workflow 1 without plugin (2018/2019)
- Workflow 2 with Ai3D plugin (2020)
Workflow 2020 | 3DPC hardware |⚡1 x
👉 3DPC 1
System hardware
CPU and performant GPU
Software licences
Installation, setup, integration
Windows 10
Running 24/7 since 2017!
Warning
End of life October 2025
Info
3DPC - 2 -3 and -4 were added after initial release
3D models | ~ 150 models | ⚡~ 3 days / model
👉 Limited articles on release, contineous new additions
- 3D modeling and integration
- template setup
- integration on 3dpc’s
- intergration on Ai3D plugin
- intergration on approval websites
2,5 euro / approved design - a retro calculation
Looking back, with roughly 60.000 approved projects handled by workflow 2020 to date, the initial workflow development cost is on average 2,5 euro / approved design, this is excluding the 3D models which were added over time. Also, excluding are all the updates were integrated after the initial release.
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