Advanced Machine & Engineering Co. (www.ame.com) offers 3D CAD models of its workholding fixtures, machine components and safety products on its web site, and provides an example of the effective use ...

So true interoperability is a necessity to ensure product-data quality (PDQ) throughout the enterprise. Interoperability issues even can arise early in the game. For instance, FE analysts need data ...

Recognizing the limits of traditional CAD for creating and controlling highly complex designs, a new effort has been launched to combine 3D modeling, simulation, and manufacturing processes into one ...

Noctua has released CAD files of many of their hardware components. The name might be familiar: they produce a wide range of ...

Valve published Steam Controller STL and STP files, giving modders and accessory makers official hardware dimensions.