Web service providers form partnership
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Quickparts product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Jan 3, 2001
ASP provider of 2D-to-3D CAD conversions and web-based supplier of rapid prototypes via online instant quoting system form strategic partnership to offer each other's web-based services.
Aspire3D, an ASP provider of 2D-to-3D CAD conversions, and Quickparts, the web-based supplier of rapid prototypes via its online instant quoting system, have formed a strategic partnership to offer each other's web-based services.
Under the agreement, customers can access either service from each other's web portals.
The companies intend to develop the partnership in 2001 by exploring the integration of each other's technology within the framework of their respective offerings.
This is the first such cross-linking arrangement that Aspire3D has made since its official opening two months back.
For Quickparts, this relationship lets its customers use Quickparts for the power and value of online instantaneous quotes and convert their 2D drawings into 3D solid models.
The Quickparts online instant quoting system requires the use of the customer's 3D solid model.
In 2000, Quickparts delivered more than 6700 instantaneous quotes valued at over $10 million.
Aspire3D recently won several prestigious awards for the world's first automated 2D to 3D conversion ASP - 2Dto3DCAD.
Aspire3D has hundreds of customers around the world who have used the 2Dto3DCAD ASP to convert their 2D drawings to parametric 3D models.
This partnership will let these customers to turn their 3D models into real parts by providing them with automated instantaneous quotes for the manufacture of rapid prototypes, injection moulded plastics and cast metal parts.
Raj Ganesan, VP for Development for Aspire3D, said: "We saw great synergy in the services provided by Quickparts and our own conversion services".
"It would seem natural for many of our customers to want to know what it would cost to manufacture their part after taking their 2D drawings to 3D models".
"We see greater collaboration in the future with Quickparts, including possibly a cobranding arrangement that will make it even easier for our customers to access seamlessly both services".
Mark Mackie, VP of Sales and Marketing for Quickparts, said: "This partnership with Aspire3D will help us solve a problem that we regularly encounter with our new customers who currently use 2D CAD, namely the conversion of their 2D drawings to 3D solid models".
"We now have a partner to provide seamlessly the 2D-to-3D CAD conversion services that some of our registrants need to experience the time savings and value of online instantaneous quotes and the Quickparts system".
"This partnership is a classic win-win-win situation".
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