Nobody wants to reinvent the wheel! If you have designed a new product and have identified the need for a specific part, the last thing you want to do is start with a blank page. Your challenge will be to find that part that you have in mind from your exhaustive parts catalogue. You may need to launch a search using an attribute-based search engine, trying to find the words that will best bring up files in your records. From those results you come up with, you will then need to decide which (if any) are appropriate and you may even have to start with a blank page for lack of finding a comparable file.

3DPartFinder solves this problem.

3DPartFinder is a shape search application that allows manufacturers to quickly locate 3D models of digitally defined parts from large heterogeneous data sources on the basis of geometric similarity. In order to identify parts already in your database that are similar to what you are looking for, you can launch 3DPartFinder and use a 3D CAD file to find all similar parts. Or, with a few clicks of your mouse, you can create a 3D sketch of your part and launch 3DPartFinder. Within a few seconds, 3DPartFinder will have presented all the similar 3D CAD files in a SolidWorks assembly. Since your research was launched with a 3D sketch, you may decide to launch a new search using one of the results returned by 3DPartFinder. This is one means of increasing the accuracy of your search. This is simply the most efficient way to initiate a design project!