Bid Document and Quotation Preparation for Mold Design and Manufacturing: Multi-turn Dialogue and Prompt Engineering

Bid-related data for mold design and manufacturing mainly comes from client-provided product models, mold flow or forming simulation files, drawings

What Data for This Category Looks Like

Bid-related data for mold design and manufacturing mainly comes from client-provided product models, mold flow or forming simulation files, drawings and process files exported from CAD/CAM, machining and measurement records, mold trial reports, and mold modification notices. Data updates follow individual project cycles. Corresponding documents are synchronized each time a mold trial or modification is completed. Daily documents include mold design task sheets, DFM reports, part drawings, machining process cards, mold trial reports, mold modification notices, and mold history records. Fields include material grades, cavity counts, draft angles, machining tolerances, mold trial defect records, and more. Most units use industrial standard measurements such as millimeters, kilograms, and hours.

Constraints Imposed by These Characteristics on Multi-turn Dialogue and Prompt Engineering

First, data is updated in isolation per individual project. Multi-turn dialogue must bind project-specific unique identifiers to avoid cross-project context confusion. Second, documents include both structured parameters and unstructured defect records. Prompts must distinguish between different types of document content to accurately extract bid-required information such as machining man-hours and material usage. Third, each mold trial or modification generates new modification records. Multi-turn dialogue must retain complete historical interactions and document update information to prevent loss of critical parameters. Fourth, bid documents and quotations must strictly match a project’s inherent data, and cannot rely on generic industry data for generated results. Project-specific data must be passed as fixed variables into the dialogue workflow.

How to Configure Settings

These configuration guidelines are based on FastGPT v4.17.0.

Configuration ItemRecommended PracticeRationale
chatIdBind the unique identifier of the current mold projectEnsure complete isolation of dialogue contexts between different projects to avoid data confusion
messagesRetain the first 20 pieces of dialogue contextCover complete modification records from multi-round mold trial iterations for mold projects, supporting multi-round communication for quotation adjustments
variablesPass preset project parameters including material grades, cavity counts, and machining tolerancesAllow the AI to directly call project-specific data, avoiding generated quotations that do not match actual conditions
Maximum context length8000–12000 charactersAdapt to the length of mold-related documents containing multiple drawings and report texts, preventing context overflow
Prompt optimizationCalibrate based on actual testingOptimize prompts for professional terminology in the mold industry to improve the accuracy of bid documents and quotations

Three Common Configuration Mistakes

  • Phenomenon: The material usage in the generated bid quotation does not match the mold flow simulation data provided by the project. Cause: Project-specific fixed parameters such as material grades and part weights were not passed via variables. The model relied on generic industry data to generate incorrect results.
  • Phenomenon: Only a small number of recent conversations are displayed in the dialogue log, and early mold modification requirement records are lost. Cause: The context retention limit for messages was not configured. The default truncation rule overwrote critical historical interaction information.
  • Phenomenon: The generated content from the AI dialogue in the workflow is directly displayed in the front-end dialog box, and cannot be received and processed by the text splicing component. Cause: The automatic output switch of the AI dialogue module was not turned off, and the component calling logic of the workflow was not followed.

How to Verify Successful Configuration

  • Check that chatId is bound to the unique identifier of the current mold project, ensuring that dialogue contexts between different projects do not interfere with each other.
  • Initiate a round of dialogue containing historical mold modification requirements, confirming that the messages context retains complete historical interaction records without critical information truncation.
  • Pass preset variables parameters, verifying that the AI-generated quotation content matches project-specific data such as materials and tolerances, with no incorrect calls to generic industry parameters.
  • Run a test in the workflow, confirming that the output of the AI dialogue is received by the text splicing component, not directly displayed in the front-end dialog box, and meets workflow design requirements.

The configuration values provided here are common starting points. Adjust them based on your own specific samples and use cases.