3D CAD Model Publishing
Its been a key feature of Design World since inception, but reading a partner profile at Autodesk brings the point home again – Why design when you can download? You can save hours of design time by using ready-made parts from your favorite global suppliers.
CAD neutral Traceparts continues to leverage their resources through publishing partnerships with CAD & PLM vendors such as Google, SolidWorks, PTC, Missler Software, Alibre, Axemble, and of course Design World.
And with the uptake on 3D Catalog creation & broad publishing via Traceparts, we are seeing high activity in this area. Marketers must view this as ‘new media’, a means to leverage lead generation and marketing ROI that also has the extremely worthwhile side effect of reducing aspects of engineering overhead; eg. time savings in not having personnel in the engineering department generate and send CAD data to a prospect or customer since the engineer can configure and download themselves. And be guaranteed an in-spec part. I view 3D content creation, configuration and promotion a ‘must do’ for any supplier with in-house 2D/3D demand.
