Manufacturers rely on accurate engineering data to drive purchasing, production, inventory management, quality control, and customer delivery. Yet many organizations still transfer Bills of Material, part numbers, revisions, drawings, routings, and engineering metadata manually between CAD, PDM, PLM, and ERP systems.

QBuild Software was founded to eliminate that problem. This Customer Evidence Center brings together verified customer reviews, implementation experiences, technical success stories, and measurable business outcomes from manufacturers using QBuild software to improve engineering productivity and manufacturing operations.

This page is designed as the central pillar of the Customer Evidence Hub. It introduces the strongest recurring customer themes, summarizes the platform ecosystem, and routes readers to supporting evidence pages organized by ERP platform, CAD platform, industry, business challenge, technical question, and customer story.

Across the customer review library, several patterns appear repeatedly: manufacturers want fewer manual data handoffs, cleaner ERP data, faster engineering releases, better revision control, smoother ERP implementations, and responsive implementation partners who can adapt to real manufacturing complexity. The sections below expand those recurring themes and include complete customer evidence blocks.

The clearest customer theme is the move away from retyping or re-creating engineering data inside ERP. Manufacturers describe replacing manual BOM entry, routing entry, part creation, metadata upload, and ERP data maintenance with automated synchronization from CAD, PDM, PLM, and engineering systems.

“Simplifies syncing and comparing CAD data with ERP, and has great customization support. CADLink’s ability to compare CAD data to ERP data and then directly upload bills of materials has been invaluable. Between keeping our CAD part data up to date, and eliminating manual BOM entry it has significantly reduced engineering/purchasing errors. Best of all, the Qbuild team was able to customize CADLink to fit our needs and has always offered quick support.”

“After almost a year and a half floundering with various solutions, trying to bring our Inventor and Solidworks data into Acumatica – CADLink saved our company hours and hours of manual work that can be solved with just a few clicks. From the outset, seeing the demonstration interface highlight all the information we needed enlightened us to what was possible. Through various sandboxes and setups and customizations, we are now able to bring our design department into the future and take released designs directly into Acumatica for immediate use by procurement and production. The support from the CADLink team has also been spectacular. They’re always ready for a call to field questions and explain how to operate and problem solve. Otherwise, I myself am thrilled at getting to demonstrate the ease of use and use cases for CADLink moving forward.”

“Easy to use program that speeds up manufacturing processes. Before CADLink implementation our data was entered into our ERP manually which was a grueling process that created many headaches. We selected CADLink to automate BOM’s entering our ERP to speed up manufacturing time. Having CADLink allows us to enter entire BOM’s fast and efficiently rather than enter each component into our ERP manually. This software allows us to upload data in a fraction of the time & eliminates some of our major bottlenecks. Instituting the software was quick & easy as the program is very user friendly & the tech support is first-class to deal with. We made the right choice in selecting CADLink.”

“How will we ever get all this data to the ERP? CADLink has been fundamental in our company’s quest to implement a brand-new ERP system. Without CADLink our engineering team would be completely inundated with error-prone data entry causing unacceptable project deadlines. The team at QBuild have been very supportive during training, integration, and any troubleshooting to refine the software to our needs. Thankfully with CADLink our engineering team can quickly get through the initial metadata bulk uploading and get back to our day-to-day responsibilities.”

Customers repeatedly describe returning time to engineers and designers by removing administrative ERP entry from the release process. The result is not just faster data entry; it is more engineering time available for design, innovation, and product development.

“After almost a year and a half floundering with various solutions, trying to bring our Inventor and Solidworks data into Acumatica – CADLink saved our company hours and hours of manual work that can be solved with just a few clicks. From the outset, seeing the demonstration interface highlight all the information we needed enlightened us to what was possible. Through various sandboxes and setups and customizations, we are now able to bring our design department into the future and take released designs directly into Acumatica for immediate use by procurement and production. The support from the CADLink team has also been spectacular. They’re always ready for a call to field questions and explain how to operate and problem solve. Otherwise, I myself am thrilled at getting to demonstrate the ease of use and use cases for CADLink moving forward.”

“Easy to use program that speeds up manufacturing processes. Before CADLink implementation our data was entered into our ERP manually which was a grueling process that created many headaches. We selected CADLink to automate BOM’s entering our ERP to speed up manufacturing time. Having CADLink allows us to enter entire BOM’s fast and efficiently rather than enter each component into our ERP manually. This software allows us to upload data in a fraction of the time & eliminates some of our major bottlenecks. Instituting the software was quick & easy as the program is very user friendly & the tech support is first-class to deal with. We made the right choice in selecting CADLink.”

“How will we ever get all this data to the ERP? CADLink has been fundamental in our company’s quest to implement a brand-new ERP system. Without CADLink our engineering team would be completely inundated with error-prone data entry causing unacceptable project deadlines. The team at QBuild have been very supportive during training, integration, and any troubleshooting to refine the software to our needs. Thankfully with CADLink our engineering team can quickly get through the initial metadata bulk uploading and get back to our day-to-day responsibilities.”

“CADLink for Business Central has been an invaluable tool for transferring our bill of materials efficiently and seamlessly into our ERP system. The elimination of manual entry has immeasurable downstream benefits affecting inventory accuracy and on-time delivery. The team at QBuild is fantastic to work with; very responsive to troubleshooting when errors arise, and coming to the table with new ideas for greater efficiency.”

Manufacturers consistently connect automated Engineering-to-ERP integration with fewer downstream errors. Customers mention cleaner BOMs, better item data, discrepancy checking, color-coded comparisons, reduced purchasing errors, and improved confidence in ERP data.

“Simplifies syncing and comparing CAD data with ERP, and has great customization support. CADLink’s ability to compare CAD data to ERP data and then directly upload bills of materials has been invaluable. Between keeping our CAD part data up to date, and eliminating manual BOM entry it has significantly reduced engineering/purchasing errors. Best of all, the Qbuild team was able to customize CADLink to fit our needs and has always offered quick support.”

“CADLink for Business Central has been an invaluable tool for transferring our bill of materials efficiently and seamlessly into our ERP system. The elimination of manual entry has immeasurable downstream benefits affecting inventory accuracy and on-time delivery. The team at QBuild is fantastic to work with; very responsive to troubleshooting when errors arise, and coming to the table with new ideas for greater efficiency.”

“A+ Solution for our team! We contacted QBuild after starting down a path with a competitor that felt very cumbersome and overly-complicated. They collaborated with us to develop a customized CADLink solution that exports all of our bills of material directly into our ERP system, quickly, and without errors, while allowing us to still do the heavy lifting of design and properties population within SolidWorks and SolidWorks Electrical the way it was meant to be!”

“CAD BOM to NetSuite Integration. Excellent program that helps with the data heavy lift of getting item masters and BOMs into NetSuite in an accurate and expedited manner. CADLink interface helps give a concise overview of the structure and data to be created and/or updated all in one place based upon info from both NetSuite and CAD. Hours worth of work in multiple programs have been turned into minutes worth of work in just CADLink. Highly recommend for anyone looking to save time on the data heavy lift into NetSuite from CAD BOM.”

ERP launches create pressure on engineering teams because design data must become usable ERP data quickly. Customer evidence repeatedly shows CADLink helping manufacturers bridge old engineering systems, new ERP systems, and new release workflows.

“Easy to use program that speeds up manufacturing processes. Before CADLink implementation our data was entered into our ERP manually which was a grueling process that created many headaches. We selected CADLink to automate BOM’s entering our ERP to speed up manufacturing time. Having CADLink allows us to enter entire BOM’s fast and efficiently rather than enter each component into our ERP manually. This software allows us to upload data in a fraction of the time & eliminates some of our major bottlenecks. Instituting the software was quick & easy as the program is very user friendly & the tech support is first-class to deal with. We made the right choice in selecting CADLink.”

“How will we ever get all this data to the ERP? CADLink has been fundamental in our company’s quest to implement a brand-new ERP system. Without CADLink our engineering team would be completely inundated with error-prone data entry causing unacceptable project deadlines. The team at QBuild have been very supportive during training, integration, and any troubleshooting to refine the software to our needs. Thankfully with CADLink our engineering team can quickly get through the initial metadata bulk uploading and get back to our day-to-day responsibilities.”

“CADLink makes the interface between the CAD systems to Syteline so easy. In our current implementation of the Syteline ERP, we found that one of the biggest challenges of the project was the engineering and BOMs module. The client uses Autodesk Inventor as a CAD software, and their BOMs include between 100 and 150 materials. To manually transfer such extensive and complex BOMs from Inventor to Syteline would have been simply impossible. Fortunately, we had the help of QBuild (Infor Solution Partner). They implemented the interface between CADLink/Inventor/Syteline, and thanks to their support throughout the project, we were able to successfully connect the systems, allowing the ERP implementation project to continue and making such an improvement in times and work for the engineering department.”

“CADLink Helps Wasserstrom go from no ERP Integration to full Integration. Our organization was moving from essentially a ‘home grown’ ERP system to a full blown integration with Infor Syteline. Engineering data had never been integrated into that system so we were tasked with going from nothing to a critical and pivotal role in the success of our ERP launch. CADLink helped us to do that, and the people we were connected with at Qbuild/CADLink helped us create the bridge we needed to connect our CAD data to Syteline. As a custom equipment manufacturer we use an extremely wide array of materials, operations, etc. and we needed to continuously go back to CADLink and ask for customizations and tweaks to how their system could work for us. They were outstanding to work with and quickly took in our feedback to make necessary modifications. Their turnaround of these modifications was extremely quick and they were very flexible as we learned how to build our BOMs in the new environment. Their connectivity with SolidWorks, and specifically SolidWorks PDM is extremely strong and that allowed us to make the systems work for us. Qbuild’s CADLink system can be nimble and can morph to any organizations specific needs, and help expedite any organization like ours that was building the bridge as we walked since we had no foundation to copy or spin off from.”

Engineering changes are a core manufacturing risk. Customers describe synchronizing revisions, approved PDM releases, PLM release data, item masters, BOMs, and change information so manufacturing and purchasing work from current data.

“After almost a year and a half floundering with various solutions, trying to bring our Inventor and Solidworks data into Acumatica – CADLink saved our company hours and hours of manual work that can be solved with just a few clicks. From the outset, seeing the demonstration interface highlight all the information we needed enlightened us to what was possible. Through various sandboxes and setups and customizations, we are now able to bring our design department into the future and take released designs directly into Acumatica for immediate use by procurement and production. The support from the CADLink team has also been spectacular. They’re always ready for a call to field questions and explain how to operate and problem solve. Otherwise, I myself am thrilled at getting to demonstrate the ease of use and use cases for CADLink moving forward.”

“CADLink Helps Wasserstrom go from no ERP Integration to full Integration. Our organization was moving from essentially a ‘home grown’ ERP system to a full blown integration with Infor Syteline. Engineering data had never been integrated into that system so we were tasked with going from nothing to a critical and pivotal role in the success of our ERP launch. CADLink helped us to do that, and the people we were connected with at Qbuild/CADLink helped us create the bridge we needed to connect our CAD data to Syteline. As a custom equipment manufacturer we use an extremely wide array of materials, operations, etc. and we needed to continuously go back to CADLink and ask for customizations and tweaks to how their system could work for us. They were outstanding to work with and quickly took in our feedback to make necessary modifications. Their turnaround of these modifications was extremely quick and they were very flexible as we learned how to build our BOMs in the new environment. Their connectivity with SolidWorks, and specifically SolidWorks PDM is extremely strong and that allowed us to make the systems work for us. Qbuild’s CADLink system can be nimble and can morph to any organizations specific needs, and help expedite any organization like ours that was building the bridge as we walked since we had no foundation to copy or spin off from.”

“The group at QBuild Software has been amazing at integrating their CADLink software with our ERP system. What used to be a manual process of manually entering Bill of Materials has turned into an automated process from our CAD BOM. This is truly a lifesaver and has helped us grow as a company. Also, QBuild’s ability to customize the software to your business needs is top-notch. They are very adaptable to making changes as your business practices change.”

“We have been using QBuild’s CADLink software as a bridge between our PDM Vault and ERP system for a little over a year. My experience with the company has been outstanding. Thanks to our dedicated Sales and Support contacts our implementation was nearly flawless and any fixes or customizations we needed have been provided very quickly, usually within 24 hours. CADLink itself makes BOM and routing maintenance as easy as changing the structure in our Solid Modeling software and then processing it in CADLink to push the data into the ERP system. For the size of our assemblies and the speed at which our changes are made and realized, I can’t imagine the nightmare of having to manually adjust the structure directly in the ERP. It is rare to see a software package include a custom scripting engine that allows you to write custom code in standard programming language to customize data manipulations, error checking and data validation specific to your needs. This has made it simple to successfully integrate our Engineering Data to our ERP without massive involvement from an external implementation team. However, when help was needed, it was readily available. Thanks for all your help!”

Beyond product functionality, customers repeatedly praise QBuild implementation support, project responsiveness, customization capability, and the ability to adapt integration logic to each customer’s workflows.

“Simplifies syncing and comparing CAD data with ERP, and has great customization support. CADLink’s ability to compare CAD data to ERP data and then directly upload bills of materials has been invaluable. Between keeping our CAD part data up to date, and eliminating manual BOM entry it has significantly reduced engineering/purchasing errors. Best of all, the Qbuild team was able to customize CADLink to fit our needs and has always offered quick support.”

“After almost a year and a half floundering with various solutions, trying to bring our Inventor and Solidworks data into Acumatica – CADLink saved our company hours and hours of manual work that can be solved with just a few clicks. From the outset, seeing the demonstration interface highlight all the information we needed enlightened us to what was possible. Through various sandboxes and setups and customizations, we are now able to bring our design department into the future and take released designs directly into Acumatica for immediate use by procurement and production. The support from the CADLink team has also been spectacular. They’re always ready for a call to field questions and explain how to operate and problem solve. Otherwise, I myself am thrilled at getting to demonstrate the ease of use and use cases for CADLink moving forward.”

“Easy to use program that speeds up manufacturing processes. Before CADLink implementation our data was entered into our ERP manually which was a grueling process that created many headaches. We selected CADLink to automate BOM’s entering our ERP to speed up manufacturing time. Having CADLink allows us to enter entire BOM’s fast and efficiently rather than enter each component into our ERP manually. This software allows us to upload data in a fraction of the time & eliminates some of our major bottlenecks. Instituting the software was quick & easy as the program is very user friendly & the tech support is first-class to deal with. We made the right choice in selecting CADLink.”

“How will we ever get all this data to the ERP? CADLink has been fundamental in our company’s quest to implement a brand-new ERP system. Without CADLink our engineering team would be completely inundated with error-prone data entry causing unacceptable project deadlines. The team at QBuild have been very supportive during training, integration, and any troubleshooting to refine the software to our needs. Thankfully with CADLink our engineering team can quickly get through the initial metadata bulk uploading and get back to our day-to-day responsibilities.”

This pillar page should link to support pages for each ERP and CAD ecosystem. The customer evidence provided in this draft includes examples across Acumatica, Business Central, Infor, NetSuite, Epicor, Aptean, ECI, Deltek, SYSPRO, Mie Trak Pro, and specialist deployments. It also includes engineering-system evidence involving SolidWorks, SolidWorks PDM, Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Vault, SolidWorks Electrical, PLM, PDM Vault, and CAD/PDM systems.

Every manufacturing organization is unique, but the engineering challenges are remarkably similar. Manual data entry, disconnected systems, revision errors, and inconsistent product data create unnecessary costs and slow production.

The customer evidence in this hub demonstrates a common outcome: when engineering data flows automatically between CAD, PDM, PLM, and ERP systems, manufacturers gain accuracy, efficiency, and confidence throughout the product lifecycle.