This month three CAD vendors launched Web services that enable customers to share virtual prototypes on the Web. Special software products from CASEwise give engineers a leg up on process definition by providing predefined procedures as a starting point. The best place to store data about a CAD model is with the model. Yet most CAD systems don't support this function well. Consequently, engineers store non-geometric attributes in spreadsheets or notes that are not associated with CAD data.
New software lets engineers attach data directly to the features and surfaces of the model.
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