2,563 designers and engineers answered the TraceParts survey aimed at understanding their expectations of industrial parts suppliers

This survey also measures engineers’ and designers’ satisfaction with the TraceParts platform.

Saint-Romain, France, January 26, 2021 – TraceParts, a world-leading supplier of digital content for engineering, has announced the publication of the results of a large global survey carried out in October and November 2020 on its CAD content platform in five different languages (English, French, German, Spanish and Italian).

Ever since its CAD content platform was launched in 2001, TraceParts has consistently carried out surveys to assess the level of satisfaction among designers and engineers in a bid to deliver the best response to their needs. In 2016, TraceParts began summarizing and publishing its findings in an e-book for all professionals involved in digital marketing for industry.

Key figures of this survey

• 90% of the parts downloaded end up being purchased.

According to the survey, the design professionals who use TraceParts to look up and download CAD models of parts claim that they end up buying those parts.

• 92% of engineers and designers would rather work with suppliers who provide CAD models of their products.

The respondents save time with their design projects when the CAD model of the required part is available. The risk of a design error is considerably reduced when designers do not need to model a product from scratch.

In addition, over half the respondents (54%) claim that they are ready to look elsewhere if their current supplier does not offer CAD models of its parts. This is a fairly new trend that did not come to light in the previous surveys carried out by TraceParts.

• 76% of the engineers and designers interviewed claim that they have identified at least one new supplier on the TraceParts platform.

Over 1,000 industrial parts suppliers currently publish the CAD models of their products through TraceParts, meaning that the TraceParts.com platform is a key source of technical content for design professionals, since it offers over 120 million 2D drawings and 3D files that can be downloaded for free.

Entitled “Interactions between designers and parts suppliers”, the e-book can be downloaded for free from the following page: 
https://go.traceparts.com/survey-results-interactions-between-designers-and-component-suppliers 

Acerca de TraceParts

TraceParts es una de las principales plataformas de contenido CAD del mundo para ingeniería, equipamiento industrial y diseño de máquinas, con un total de 5,3 millones de miembros registrados de 1,3 millones de empresas que obtienen activamente información de productos y datos técnicos de más de 195 países diferentes.

Perteneciente al grupo Trace, fundado en 1990, TraceParts ofrece una exposición de marketing altamente orientada a más de 800 clientes de todos los tamaños y de todas las industrias a través de una potente API basada en la nube y aplicaciones SaaS, como bibliotecas de componentes CAD, catálogos de productos y configuradores.

Los servicios integrales de marketing digital de TraceParts ayudan a los fabricantes y distribuidores de componentes, los proveedores de impresión 3D y prototipos rápidos, y los proveedores de software CAD/CAM/CAE/ECAD y hardware informático a promocionar sus productos y servicios, y a generar clientes potenciales altamente cualificados.

Disponible de forma gratuita para millones de ingenieros y diseñadores de todo el mundo, la plataforma de contenido CAD de TraceParts proporciona acceso a más de 1730 catálogos de productos certificados por el proveedor, a miles de millones de dibujos 2D y modelos CAD 3D, y a fichas de productos que responden perfectamente a las necesidades de digitalización de los procesos y operaciones de diseño, adquisición, fabricación y mantenimiento