AUTOMATED CUSTOM CONFIGURATION SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

An automated custom configuration system (and method) is provided for facilitating the configuration and customization of desired products or objects that require users to gather and assimilate disparate knowledge of makes, models, types, features, options, limitations, codes, and prices of the desired product/service (or group of the same) to be configured and customized. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, custom configuration is facilitated through a parametric drawing engine which provides illustrations of configuration data. User modification of an element of an illustrated object causes the parametric drawing engine to determine and display a corresponding modification in the remaining elements of the illustration suc h that the connections of the modified element to the remaining elements remains the sa me and the parameters of the object adhere to the relevant design rules, or other requirements of a given vendor or manufacturer. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, a change in an attribute of an element of an illustrated object (e.g., color, materia l, and texture) causes the engine to determine and display corresponding changes in the attributes of certain elements.