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3D CAD software
News Release from: SolidWorks Corporation
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 14 December 2000
Success for interfacing 3D CAD/online
catalogues
SolidWorks Corporation has announced that its new 3D PartStream.NET service is now live on several companies' Web sites, including SMC Pneumatics and Verticalnet
SolidWorks Corporation has announced that its new 3D PartStream.NET service is now live on several companies' Web sites Introduced in October, 2000, 3D PartStream.NET is a revolutionary service that allows manufactures to publish 3D CAD content to online catalogs and e-commerce solutions, opening a new channel for marketing, sales, and customer service over the Internet
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 31 Jan 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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TechniCon, an innovator in online product catalogs for industrial products, used 3D PartStream.NET to build an online catalog for SMC Pneumatics, the world's largest manufacturer of pneumatic automation components.
SMC's products are complex and highly variable -- in fact, a single product can be configured in as many as one million different ways, making a customer's selection and configuration process complicated.
Using 3D PartStream.NET technology, SMC customers can now simply choose their desired product configurations by selecting predefined values for parameters such as width, height, and diameter.
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3D PartStream.NET then parametrically generates the specific model based on these specified options.
SMC customers can then easily view and download the 3D model in a wide variety of formats for use in their own designs.
The SMC Web site is located at http://www.smcetech.com .
VerticalNet, a business-to-business trading exchange, employs 3D PartStream.NET viewing technology to 3D-enable their customers' storefronts.
VerticalNet has 57 industry-specific, online vertical trading communities that service thousands of customers.
Mahr Federal, a VerticalNet customer, provides dimensional measurement solutions for precision manufacturers in a variety of industries, and is using 3D-Powered Storefronts to showcase its precision gauging products.
The Mahr Federal storefront can be viewed at: http://www.metrologyworld.com/storefronts/fedproducts.html.
"The SMC catalog and VerticalNet trading exchange demonstrate two very effective and powerful ways that companies are successfully using the powerful functionality available in 3D PartStream.NET," said Jim Giebutowski, director of Content Publishing for SolidWorks Corporation.
"Currently, we have two different types of partners -- those partners like TechniCon that develop online catalogs and e-commerce systems for manufacturing companies, and partners such as VerticalNet that develop Web-based trading exchanges that reach thousands of manufacturing companies every day.
We are aggressively pursuing both of these channels, allowing 3D PartStream.NET to grow into an industry leading service in the rapidly expanding field of online catalogs, e-commerce Web sites, and Web-based trading exchanges.".
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