TraceParts, a market-leading digital engineering 3D content company, today announced the launch of its sixth Christmas Tree Model Contest, taking place until December 19, 2012. The winners will be selected among the best Christmas tree renderings received.

Contestants must build a Christmas tree using components downloaded from the TracePartsOnline.net CAD library. Three winners will be selected and best rendered images will be published on www.traceparts.com website.

The prizes are 

- one Apple iPad Mini including a Smart Cover for the first place, 

- one Sony MDRRF865RK wireless headphone with a 20.-€ Amazon voucher for the second place 

- and one rotring Rapid Pro pen with a Moleskin notebook for the third.

The Christmas trees should be designed in 3D, using any CAD or picture editing software, and using as many different components available in the TracePartsOnline.net CAD library as possible.

Contestants must send the rendered images of their trees until December 19, 2012 to info@traceparts.com. The file size of the image should not exceed 1MB if possible.

Have fun designing your Christmas tree!

Your TraceParts Team

Good luck to everyone!

* TraceParts' Press Release can be read here .

As you can see, these figures are huge and pretty impressive. What TraceParts has built during the last decade is amazing. The CATIA users community can source various types of 3D models for free as soon as they have registered! This includes, for instance: fasteners, flexible drives and transmissions, support and locating elements, linear motion systems, reducers, elbows, pneumatic and hydraulic fittings, cylinders and accessories, mold & die components, ... including thousands of technical data sheets.

Boost your design productivity by not redrawing the catalogs already available inside TracePartsOnline.net and concentrate on adding value to your company’s products!

So... Joyeux anniversaire TracePartsOnline.net ! (If you want to wish them an happy birthday, don't hesitate to join their Facebook , Twitter or LinkedIn communities ;-)).

Anthony

For the fifth year, our partner TraceParts is not going to ask you to draw a sheep like the Little Prince. No, what they're gonna ask you is to draw... a Christmas tree !

Image courtesy of Traceparts

Airbus ' planes fly into the sky thanks to a lot of people working hard to make it happen. For that they also work with 3D tools to study, create, test, etc. every single part of each plane. Airbus and its partners in French plants are working on CATIA V5 to design the tooling. "The tooling is made up of a large number of standard parts bought from supplier catalogues: fastenings, clamping and handling parts, bushings, cylinders, etc. and each site or sub-contractor was modeling parts it needed with a specific name and level of detail", says Laurent SENOT, a Dassault Data Services consultant who works with Airbus.

This being said, Airbus was looking for a solution to simplify this process and get a homogeneous library of components that would be used by each site and suppliers.

Traceparts brought the solution

Our partner Traceparts is a French provider who delivers standard parts library seamlessly integrated with CATIA V5. They were choosen by Airbus France, Airbus Spain and Airbus UK for its functionalities, its content and its ability to adapt its solution to their specific requirements.

Additionnally to the fact that they are the only one library developer to have the status of CAA V5 Software Partner, they were able to customize their software on a number of imperatives leading to a close collaboration.

Traceparts and Airbus are working on a brand new version, currently in a deployment phase that integrates notable developments such as the automatic replacement of instanced parts by other components and allow Airbus to build its own parts into the library.

Discover how Traceparts can work for you. Read the full success story.

Alexandre and the Traceparts Team