PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT USING CAD-CAM-CAE SOFTWARE AND INTERNET FACILITIES

Abstract: The main goals to the product development are to obtain a short time of design process, a low price and best performances of the final product. According to these goals, the product design must use some modules of advanced CAD-CAM-CAE software and the internet on-line 3D catalogs for some parts (more or less standard). The advantage obtained by using some modules from different CAD-CAM-CAE software is to use the most performant parts of these software (specific to the engineering fields) at a low price (it isn’t necessary all the software, only some specific modules). The internet 3D on-line catalogs offer the advantage to find very easy useful information about mechanical elements (prices, technical characteristics, 3D models, etc,). Key words: CAD-CAM-CAE software, internet on-line catalogues, on-line portal 3D catalogues, standard elements, integrated product desig