Business variable optimization for manufacture or supply of designed products

A system of providing pricing for one or more instantiation of a structure defined in a three-dimensional (3D) computer model, the system comprising an electronic pricing system, wherein the electronic pricing system is configured to:

• automatedly determine and display a price for a product to be supplied and initial values for a plurality of business variables associated with the price as a function of the 3D computer model as a function of a computer assisted design (CAD) graphical user interface (GUI), wherein automatedly determining the price for a product to be supplied and initial values for the plurality for business variables comprises:
• receiving, via the CAD GUI, an initiation for a price request;
• identifying, via an interrogator and in response to the received initiation for the price request, a discrete shape of a 3D computer model representing the product to be supplied as a function of a CAD system command;
• analyzing, via the interrogator, the identified discrete shape, wherein the analyzing comprises comparing the identified discrete shape to a manufacturing requirement;
• and
• determine the price for the product to be supplied and initial values for the plurality of business variables associated with the price as a function of the comparison of the identified discrete shape to the manufacturing requirement;
• receive a parameter interrelationship information;
• receive a request to lock a value of a first one of the price or one of the plurality of business variables from a user;
• lock the value of the first one of the price or one of the plurality of business variables;
• receive a value for a second one of the price or one of the plurality of business variables from a user;
• automatedly determine acceptable ranges for values of at least two of the plurality of business variables as a function of the parameter interrelationship information and automatedly indicating the acceptable ranges to a user;
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• automatedly determine and display updated values and an updated acceptable range for one or more of the price and the plurality of business variables.