TraceParts native Onshape App adds hundreds of millions of free standard and supplier-certified 3D models to the first and only full-cloud 3D CAD system

TraceParts, one of the world's leading providers of 3D digital content for engineering, announces the immediate availability of its free 3D Design Library app to all Onshape CAD users through the Onshape App Store.

Saint Romain, France - March 30th, 2021 - TraceParts, one of the world's leading providers of 3D digital content for engineering, announces the immediate availability of its free 3D Design Library app to all Onshape CAD users through the Onshape App Store.


This new native application allows instant and unlimited free access to hundreds of millions of free standard and supplier-certified 3D models seamlessly integrated to Onshape cloud-based CAD system.

Once the TraceParts 3D Design Library app is added to Onshape as a free subscription, designers can instantly find millions of products from over 1,100 leading suppliers of mechanical, electrical, electronics, pneumatics, hydraulics, and many more types of industrial components.

When a product is selected, designers are provided with a real-time 3D preview and extremely rich Bill of Materials (BOM), and they can directly insert its CAD model inside their Onshape design project. This greatly simplifies and accelerates their design process, boosting Onshape users' daily productivity and drastically reducing time-to-market when designing new products.

"We are extremely excited to build such a strategic partnership with Onshape. By leveraging the best of both technologies, we are giving Onshape users easier and greatly optimized access to hundreds of millions of product data though this powerful and seamlessly integrated application." explained Gabriel Guigue, TraceParts CEO & Co-founder.

"A key component of our business model is to support leading CAD software partners like Onshape by delivering rich geometric content just a mouse-click away to all their users, globally. Providing Onshape users with instant access to TraceParts' huge part library is a new great illustration of our 30-year "Product Content Everywhere™" commitment helping Engineers boost their design productivity." said Bertrand Cressent, Product Portfolio Global Manager at TraceParts."

"Our collaboration with Onshape brings a lot of additional marketing exposure to the 1,100 component suppliers already publishing their product data with TraceParts. This allows part vendors to get highly qualified sales leads by simply uploading their digital product information onto the TraceParts Publishing Network. They instantly benefit from TraceParts fantastic reach of over 29 million engineers and designers worldwide." added Bertrand Cressent.

Onshape users can subscribe for free to the TraceParts 3D Design Library App directly from the Onshape App Store: https://appstore.onshape.com/apps/Manufacturers%20Models/AYC67W7S43NYA2JTP2ZA3UIGBRC3PSVDEEBCK2A=/description

Check out the video about how to use TraceParts 3D Design Library App from Onshape: https://youtu.be/UDEsIsZSX6Y

About TraceParts

TraceParts is one of the world's leading CAD-content platforms for Engineering, Industrial Equipment and Machine Design, totaling 4.2 million registered members from 1.2 million companies actively sourcing product information and technical data from over 195 different countries.

As part of the Trace Group founded in 1990, TraceParts brings highly targeted marketing exposure to more than 800 customers of all sizes and from all industries, via powerful cloud-based API and SaaS applications such as CAD part libraries, product catalogs and configurators.

TraceParts' comprehensive Digital Marketing Services help part manufacturers and distributors, 3D printing & rapid-prototyping suppliers, CAD/CAM/CAE/ECAD software and computer hardware vendors promote their products and services and generate highly qualified sales leads.

Available free-of-charge to millions of Engineers & Designers worldwide, the TraceParts CAD-content platform provides access to over 1,100 supplier-certified product catalogs and billions of 2D drawings & 3D CAD models and product datasheets that perfectly match the digitalization needs of Design, Purchasing, Manufacturing and Maintenance processes & operations, in virtually any industrial sector.

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