our philosophy

When was the last time you walked into a machine-shop and saw someone making their own M6x12 capscrew... well why should you make your own?

CAD is in a state of constant development and flux. The days of simple lines and arcs are well gone, but the nirvana of picking virtual parts out of your suppliers virtual stores and inserting them into your virtual machine is not quite here yet.

We are at an in-between stage, where the more basic components are internationally standardised to a level, where one can confidently purchase parts irrespective of supplier.

The question is no longer whether there are too many parts in your assembly, but whether there are enough. The closer the assembly resembles the real world, the better the results. In other words, the more you put into it, the more you get out of it.

We aim to provide virtual parts to save users creating the same thing over and over, and get on with what they are being paid to do - design machines and products. Are you still hand-machining your own screws?

The parts libraries were created from in-house necessity. We found existing products expensive, cumbersome and heavily slanted towards imperial sizes. We didn't want to pay for parts we were never going to use. The library started off as an after-hours exercise, and quickly grew to accommodate everything we used regularly.