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Product Data Exchange Resources


Information for Buyers

"The CAD Rating Guide"

"Daratech CAD/CAM, CAE: Survey, Review and Buyers' Guide"

CAD/CAM Publising

  • "The Product Data Management Buyer's Guide"
  • "Color Plotter Buyer's Guide"
  • ""The Workstation Buyer's Guide"

Technical information on CAD/CAM & PDM

CAD Data Quality

CAD/CAM and the Exchange of Product Data

CAD Computer Aided Design

CAD Exchange Quick Reference Guide

How to exchange data between CAD-systems at CERN

Data Exchange Articles

CAD data exchange articles

Wahoo CAD/CAM

"CAD/CAM Report"

CAD/CAM Publishing

  • "The Smart Manager's Guide to Effective CAD Management"

  • "The Product Data Management Buyer's Guide"

  • "101 CAD/CAM Traps"

  • "CAD/CAM Strategic Planning Guide"

  • "Color Plotter Buyer's Guide"

  • "The 1997 Rapid Prototyping Directory"

  • "The Workstation Buyer's Guide"

  • "The Handbook of Solid Modeling"

CERN Engineering Data Magament

CIMdata

Design Data Magament


Organizations who Maintain Information on CAD/CAM & PDM

National Institute for Product Data Exchange

Product Data Management Information Center


CAD/CAM & PDM Links & Search Tools

http://www.flash.net/~cdhb/Cadlinks.htm

http://www.webcom.com/~imt/wwwcadsw.html

http://web.egr.msu.edu/~kudapa/ITI/CAD/soft.html

http://www.ctad.com/coti/

http://xenoy.mae.cornell.edu/cad-info.html

http://www.std.com/Newbury/CIMdata/pages/interest.htm

http://dxca01.cern.ch/Harvest/brokers/CADD/query.html

http://www.cadshack.com/cadpages.htm

http://www.cadshack.com/mechsite.htm


Glossary of Terms

http://www.adg.com/glossary.htm

http://www.scra.org/uspro//orgs/nat_init/nipde_gl.html

http://web.egr.msu.edu/~kudapa/ITI/CAD/HTML/cad.html


Documents from AIAG (the Automotive Industry Action Group)

https://secure.netrex.com/aiag/CART/Cart.cgi

  • "CAD/CAM Media Label Guideline" AIAG Report number D-1

  • "General Guidelines for Increasing the Value of CAD Data" AIAG Report number D-6

  • "White Paper on Solid Modeling" AIAG Report number D-5