Five ways of innovating with TraceParts

Nowadays, engineers and designers scour the web in search of 3D models for the standard products that they need for their projects. Doing so increases their productivity and improves the reliability of their designs. 

Fail to provide such digital data on the web in 2019 and you could miss out on all those opportunities for new design projects.

There is also the risk of prospective customers seeing your company as unable to move with the times and incapable of listening to their needs.

To help suppliers with the process of simplifying their 3D data and providing their models in multiple formats (2D, 3D, native, neutral, etc.), here are five ways in which you can innovate with TraceParts.

 

1 – Provide CAD models of your products online

As an industrial parts supplier, it is important to provide services that can enhance the user experience on your website.

TraceParts offers several solutions for publishing the CAD models of your 3D products in response to your customers’ problems. You can choose between the following:

• Publish your products on a website dedicated to your catalog and hosted by TraceParts
• Incorporate the TraceParts technology (configurator, 3D viewer, CAD downloads, etc.) into your website using web services
• Optimize and customize your website by adding content (configurator, 3D viewer, CAD downloads, etc.) managed by TraceParts using APIs

The more seamless the level of integration, the greater the user experience.

 

2 – 3D view of your products

Move, rotate, enlarge… that is how design professionals view and interact with your projects when using the 3D viewer.

The TraceParts 3D viewer also allows design professionals to see your products as images, technical drawings, footprints and even symbols.

All the technical information displayed in the viewer will reassure designers and engineers that the selected component is suitable for their design project.

In practical terms, the 3D viewer gives designers and engineers much easier to the parts.

Irrespective of the web browser used, it will reduce the time taken to load the CAD models and offer a better preview of the products within a catalog. 

This is a must-have for industrial parts suppliers!

 

3 — Address your customers’ specific needs with our 3D configurator

The 3D configurator allows designers and engineers to receive an instant response to a specific need without needing to know your products inside out.

Here are some of its benefits:

• Instant 3D view of the configuration results 
• Automatically generated data sheets in PDF format
• Time savings for your sales teams

With just a few clicks, this online configurator can give designers and engineers an instant response to a specific need without needing to know your products inside out.

It is child’s play for your customers and a considerable time saving for your sales teams, who will no longer have to walk customers through the process of selecting and configuring your products.

Once your products are configured, customers just need to add them to their order book.

 

4 — Your products available in any format

Your prospects have certain requirements when it comes to your products, and that is perfectly normal!

But many parts suppliers run into the same problem, i.e. how do they transform their existing CAD models into the format required by their customers?

The process of converting each individual model takes ages, whether for your teams or design professionals.

The modeling experts at TraceParts can convert your products into any format!

The main advantage for your customers is not only having access to CAD models with a perfectly accurate geometric representation, but a wealth of other data relating directly to the design, such as the part number, description, material, length, diameter and weight.

Therefore, you save your technical operations department and sales force considerable time, because they no longer need to respond to individual enquiries.

 

5 — Mobile app

Since 37% of the people using the TraceParts CAD content platform regularly work on smartphones and tablets*, we have developed a personalized app that parts suppliers can use to promote their products.

TraceParts offers a dedicated app for parts vendors for promoting their 3D products on iOS and Android smartphones and tablets.

 

Our experts are on standby to give you a demonstration of our solutions. Don’t wait any longer to fix up a meeting: