An e-catalog allows SMC Corp.of America to efficiently present its complex product line to manufacturing customers.

By Alicia Orr Suman

System Development

When SMC approached SolidWorks in early 2000 with its challenge of building CAD models for its electronic catalog, SolidWorks already had Web-enabled its own software and could display 3-D models on a computer screen.

Jim Giebutowski, director of sales and marketing for SolidWorks’ 3D content solutions, says its software originally had been designed for single users. “So we had to adapt the system to the Internet and to multiple users.” SolidWorks worked with SMC on one of two beta tests on the 3D PartStream.Net project.