Phoenix Contact Opts for TraceParts to Develop its 3D CAD Library

By DE Editors

Phoenix Contact and TraceParts have announced that Phoenix Contact products will be made available in popular native and neutral CAD formats at www.tracepartsonline.net.

Phoenix Contact makes connection technology between conductors and printed circuit boards, automation technology, electrical interface technology and surge protection.

As an initial step, more than 8,000 products from the Combicon PCB connection technology product range are being integrated into TracePartsOnline.net in time for Electronica 2010.

Secondly, in-depth integration of 3D models will be carried out within the Phoenix Contact web site. Phoenix Contact customers can then directly visualize the selected products, in 3D and online.

"TraceParts’ innovative interface is extremely important to us as it can directly reuse our own geometrical data in STEP format, without having to recreate all the data,” says Jens-Uwe Henkel, COMBICON product marketing manager. “This also means that in future, native formats will be available to our customers in just a single mouse click. A subsequent phase in the expansion of this partnership will involve us integrating TraceParts technology as well into our website. The relations that TraceParts has established with design and engineering-related marketplaces that we consider important also confirmed that we opted for the right partner.”

For more information, visit Phoenix Contact and TraceParts.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.