3D CADモデルを公開する理由は？

Many companies in our market sectors select their components from TraceParts, Europe’s number one. This is especially true of our key accounts in the automotive and aerospace industries. It was important to give them access to our catalogs through that particular channel.

With an online catalog we want to be able to offer designers, developers and also students the possibility of using our CAD data for their projects. Especially the students require enough material to be able to experiment with the different software solutions

We had already used CAD to sketch some tools before Facom put the TraceParts library online. It will save time for modeling and enable us to provide a list of references to our customers. We recently simulated maintenance operations for a dual-engine 100-seat airplane. The engines contained many parts within a very confined area. We were able to supply our customer with a “Toolbox” that includes a list of recommended tools, including several specific tools. Our customer was impressed by this service!

Our decision was based above all on technical criteria. TraceParts was the only supplier covering all the main market standards and formats. In addition, the quality of its catalogs and resulting success with CAD/CAM customers made it a vital partner.

On the recommendations of many suppliers and customers, we choose TraceParts to consolidate the existing 3D catalogs, to create catalogs for vendors joining the program, ant to publish them on our websites, on TraceParts.com, and the entire TraceParts Network.

An internal development would have caused us to make compromises, specifically on the proposed CAD formats. This orientation would have penalized some users of our components and would have been contrary to our tradition of offering the best service to our clients. This work went largely beyond the framework of our profession.