Configura exhibits at the NeoCon World’s Trade Fair in Chicago

Configura, Inc. maker of award-winning CET Designer® software used by Haworth, Spacefile, Steelcase, Teknion and others, will be at the NeoCon World’s Trade Fair June 13-15, held at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. Configura representatives from both Sweden and the U.S. are presenting.

Highlights include demos of the new Photo Lab in CET Designer – extreme photorealism in the rendering process. Additional demos of CET Designer’s Movie Studio and Google SketchUp™ Extensions will be offered.

 

CET Designer users are invited to register at Configura’s NeoCon booth for the 4th annual User Conference, to be held Oct. 26-27 at The Venetian/Palazzo in Las Vegas. Users are also invited to enter a drawing for a free trip (hotel and airfare) to the conference.

 

If a new user attends a CET Designer two-day class in 2011, the user can receive a free trial license of CET Designer during NeoCon Week (June 13-15) for the remainder of 2011. Contact Tracy [dot] Lanning [at] configura [dot] com (Tracy [dot] Lanning [at] configura [dot] com) for details.

 

CET Designer is developed in collaboration with manufacturers who have invested in a CET Designer Extension; these manufacturers now include Steelcase, Haworth, Teknion, Spacefile, Carvajal Espacios, KI, Inscape, Aurora Storage Products, Solinoff and Connectrac. The Extensions are built with each manufacturer’s product intelligence, for seamless, rules-based accuracy, via one solution, throughout the entire design, specification and ordering process. An Extension called ProjectSymbols additionally includes libraries covering more than 80 percent of the contract furniture industry’s products. Configura’s free Google SketchUp™ Extension enables seamless access to Google SketchUp™ and Google 3D Warehouse.

 

CET Designer is $750 per user per year and includes support and upgrades. Manufacturer’s CET Designer Extension price points are determined by each manufacturer and typically cost $250 annually.

 

CET Designer is an all-inclusive solution for accurately designing, specifying, ordering, and creating photo-realistic renderings and fly-thru movies, and producing installation documentation, for a wide range of products. As an industry-wide solution, it’s used by design, sales, marketing and customer service personnel at commercial furniture dealerships as well as by A&D firms, students and in-house design departments. Currently, more than 8,300 users across the globe use Configura software.