{"id":392,"date":"2010-08-02T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/392\/3d-models-for-download.htm"},"modified":"2020-04-05T19:25:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T13:55:24","slug":"3d-models-for-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/3d-models-for-download\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Offer 3D CAD File Downloads of Your Product"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You know the old saying: “People buy from other people whom they like and trust.” Well, there is a corollary to that: “People buy from other people whose CAD models they love and trust.”<\/p>\n

Users, whether they be engineers, architects or interior designers, need to know whether your company’s products are a good fit for their designs. Increasingly, what users are doing is wanting to download a 3-D model from your website, position that model in their larger 3-D model of a machine or architectural project and check for the fit.<\/p>\n

Downloadable 3-D models should be provided for a good reason: they make good marketing sense. By playing with your 3-D models, users are subconsciously getting familiar with them and getting to like them. This increases the likelihood of them buying your physical product when their design is done.<\/p>\n

An innovation in downloadable 3-D models is for websites to provide what are known as parametric 3-D models. A parametric model is a model whose design is controlled by a list of parameters. The parameters are offered to the user in a table, the user chooses the parameters he\/she wants, the model is drawn on the fly and the user downloads it immediately.<\/p>\n

There are two variants of parametric model provision: in one variant, the user goes to your website and chooses parameters from a table of parameters on your website. Your website instantaneously creates a 3-D model based on those parameters and makes the 3-D model available for download.<\/p>\n

The other variant is a ‘client’ version of the same system. Instead of choosing the parameters at your website, the user downloads the table of parameters and your model creating software into his\/her machine. He\/she launches the program, is presented with a table of parameters and the 3-D model is created on the user\u2019s machine without the Internet.<\/p>\n

Regardless of which variant you provide, the user is made familiar with your product. It is almost as if the user is given a free sample of your product, the difference being that it is not a physical sample but a digital sample. The effect on the user’s mind, however, is very similar to that of the the physical sample: the user knows what your product looks like, he\/she uses it, he\/she likes it and he\/she wants to buy it.<\/p>\n

The takeaway: provide downloadable 3-D models of your products and if possible make them parametric. Your users will appreciate this facility and will be more likely to buy what you are selling.<\/p>\n

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You know the old saying: “People buy from other people whom they like and trust.” Well, there is a corollary to that: “People buy from other people whose CAD models they love and trust.” Users, whether they be engineers, architects or interior designers, need to know whether your company’s products are a good fit for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,145,157,147,148],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cad-news","tag-3d-modelling","tag-parametric-models","tag-parmetric-catalogs","tag-revit","tag-solidworks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5811,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/5811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}