WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers at Purdue University have developed the first system capable of searching a company's huge database of three-dimensional parts created with computer-aided design ...

NKK Switches is doing its part to save engineers time. The manufacturer of electromechanical switches just announced single-click access to 3-D CAD models for the majority of its switches and ...

PAPERLESS PARTS, the estimating and quoting software for job shops and contract manufacturers, announced several enhancements to its 3D Part Viewer, a cloud-based, format-agnostic CAD file viewer. The ...

A CAD configurator and Webordering system lets users survey some 200,000 mechanical and motion-control parts, then parametrically configure them into native CAD files that can be downloaded for use in ...

As the world has evolved into 3D CAD parts and assemblies, design engineers have had to cope with CAD files that are megabytes, sometimes gigabytes in size. Internally, engineers have learned to deal ...

The CAD software is the only one to encompass 3D design, analysis, product-data management, collaboration, and injectionmolded-plastic-part validation in a single package. Key improvements include an ...