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Product category: Data, bibliographic and document management software
News Release from: TraceParts | Subject: Trace Parts
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial Team on 08 April 2002

Library boosts CAD productivity

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Trace Parts is a standard parts library that is claimed to significantly increase CAD users' productivity.

Trace Parts is a standard parts library that is claimed to significantly increase CAD users' productivity The Trace Parts product completely eliminates the time consuming process of finding and modelling international standard and manufacturers' components

The time saved in this way allows the designer to spend more time on the more critical stages of the design process.

With this major new release, Trace Parts has become the first library of international standard and manufacturers' components in the world to be seamlessly integrated into all the main CAD platforms on the market: CATIA V5, SolidWorks, Inventor, Solid Edge, Mechanical Desktop, thinkdesign, TopSolid, AutoCAD and very shortly Unigraphics, Ideas and Pro/Engineer.

Numerous generic and platform specific CAD file formats can also be generated directly from the Trace Parts application, including DXF, DWG, Parasolid, ACIS, IGES, STEP, and Pro/Engineer 2001.

Trace Parts incorporates more than 300,000 components straight from the leading component manufacturers in the world and international standard institutions.

The content includes such components as: fasteners, shaft ends, keys, pins, gears, bearings, cylinders, flanges, reducers, elbows, electric motors and structural sections, and also included are detailed technical documents regarding the individual products.

The content of Trace Parts is relevant to most mechanical designers in the machinery, automotive and aerospace industry.

Trace Parts is run from within the CAD platform with which it is being used and the components generated are inserted directly into the current assembly (as a subassembly if required) with all their bill of material information attached (designation, reference, manufacturer, standard, mass etc).

Several search engines are included in the application as well as a 3D viewer, these features mean that time is saved when selecting components as the right component is found first time.

Once the component has been selected users can automatically generate the six 2D views in DWG or DXF format.

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