Have you ever been in the middle of a new design and found yourself in need of accurate 3D models of your vendor’s part so you can sort out how to interface their design with yours? What is your first instinct? Do you ask the vendor if they have models readily available? Or do you just draw up your own model?
With EXAIR products, there is no need to go it alone and produce your own model. We have 3D models of just about every product we manufacture. For those models we do not have available through our website, a simple request through our Application Engineering department at techelp@exair.com is all that is needed to begin the process of getting what you need.
CAD Options on EXAIR.com
We are engineers here, so we know the benefit of popping a 3D model into your assembly to make sure it fits, and you are going to be able to plumb and mount it correctly. That is why we have taken the time to build out such a large offering when it comes to 3D and 2D files for 90% of our items.
Our 3D models and CAD drawings are available in over sixty native formats for each product. Registered users can simply log in and go to the EXAIR CAD Library to navigate to the right model. If you haven’t registered yet, do it now. If you have not taken advantage of our CAD Library, we encourage you to do so as well!
When I use the term models, I am often taken back to the plastic models I would build as a kid. The models I always focused on were classic muscle cars and some World-War 2-era aircraft. There was always something about my dad helping me with them and really deep in my mind I felt like I was building a real car. Well, like most things, the term models have changed. While there are still plastic models found, the hobby shops have dwindled in numbers and a lot of models now refer to computer-aided drawing, or CAD for short, another acronym just like I talked about last week.
Organized Chaos. As an adult, I get a slight bit of anxiety about this picture. At the same time, it brings back that feeling of looking for just the right model and having one catch my eye that I wasn’t expecting.
CAD models have really simplified the design and implementation process for anything, even buying furniture for your home. You can use free CAD software to lay out your room and render the environment. In industrial environments, a CAD model can really give the full picture of how the products will fit, what kind of mounting will be needed, and help to design the plumbing or wiring that will be needed to get to the new component. Some models even let you test the functionality or see the coverage of spray / air patterns. This gives yet another method of validation before money is spent on procuring a product for physical testing.
The best part of this is that EXAIR has an entire CAD catalog that spans across all EXAIR products and these models can be downloaded in dozens of different formats to align well with the software being used in order to meet you, our customers where they are, rather than having to conform to what we use. These EXAIR CAD downloads are accurate and extremely helpful to use as a talking point and the Application Engineers here can help you improve the implementation of our products before you even get them, so it minimizes the amount of time it takes you to install the product once it is on site. We can also talk with you how to correctly position the products and validate the placement of our products in order to best serve the application at hand.
This may not be the finished model but I am pretty sure this was the exact kit I started with over 30 years ago.
These CAD models won’t permit you to 3D print a functional product. They will, however, let you 3D print a placeholder for the product that could be physically manipulated if you need to physically validate it before purchasing. While these models aren’t quite the same as that 1968 Chey Comaro SS that I built with my dad way back when it is probably still in a box in the closet at my parents’ house, they are helpful and can give you an assurance of how the EXAIR item is going to fit. After all, assurance and validation is what a lot of building those models really was about now that I think about it.
If you need help with CAD models of EXAIR products, for some odd reason you can’t find the exact model you are looking for, that’s what our Application Engineering team is here to help with. So contact us.
EXAIR provides customers with confidence when selecting the right product for their process. To continue facilitating a high-quality user experience, EXAIR.com has upgraded the resources available to users by adding Augmented Reality (AR) capabilities while visiting the site on a mobile device. Customers will now have the ability to not only view a 3D version of their selected product, but view a true-to-scale version of the product in their application. Augmented Reality is a cutting-edge technology, and EXAIR.com is proud to be the first, and only, manufacturer of compressed air solutions with such a powerful tool available for customers.
The new AR web app provides an interactive and engaging experience for customers. By browsing the product on a mobile device, shoppers can select their product for its specific sizes and specifications, and place a 3D version in their current workspace to verify fitment for their application. This new feature provides more certainty during the researching and buying experience, and assures that the EXAIR solution is a perfect fit for each unique setup.
You can find it on your mobile device by following this:
Sign in to your account. (If you have not signed in, you can Create an Account.)
Click on the List Icon (Or slide drawer navigation) in the top left.
Click on “Resources”
Click on “Augmented Reality”
We have some details about AR. Toward the bottom, click on “Start Browsing Now!”
You will have a selection of EXAIR products to choose from. Select product.
When you get to the base product menu, a 3D image will appear.
From here, you will be able to select individual items and sizes.
There will be a selection button “View in your Space” with the 3D image. Select.
On any flat surface like a table, the product will appear.
You can move this with your finger and position it onto the machine.
In addition to the new AR function, EXAIR.com has a large Knowledge Base that offers many other resources to help customers find and select the right solution for their application. Browse product videos, performance data, installation and maintenance guides, air savings calculators, case studies, slide presentations and an extensive Application Database including over one-thousand solutions to learn how EXAIR Intelligent Compressed Air® products can improve your processes. Visit EXAIR.com to begin taking advantage of these valuable resources, all free of charge. If you do need assistance, an Application Engineer will be happy to assist you.
We are always looking for ways to make the process of getting as much information to you as fast and seamless as possible! In the past, you have been able to request that we mail you a full physical catalog, or one of our application engineers could email you the section you were after! But something big is coming to the website this March! Introducing EXAIR’s fully digital and interactive Catalog!
This tool will allow us to get information directly into your hands, and you can even order by clicking the product number in the catalog! Let’s break down a few of the features, identified by the red numbers above the symbol!
This is the print function. You can print single pages or the entire catalog!
This will open a Table of Contents on the left side of the screen, so you easily jump to the product section you are interested in!
This will allow you to switch between a single page view or a double page view!
You can use this to share the page you are on, you can share via Facebook, X (Twitter), Email, Linked In, Pinterest, or just copy a link you can share however you want!
This is the navigation block. You can use the arrows to jump a single page at a time or front to back. You can also type in a page number in the middle block to jump right to a specific page.
This will open each page’s thumbnail in the lower pane.
Click this to download the entire catalog as a PDF, or just a selected number of pages!
If you have a part number, and you want to search for it, use the magnified glass.
This gives you the ability to put a note on a page you can refer back to later! And will be shown when you print that page!
This will allow you to select from the catalog and paste it somewhere else like a presentation or project scope!
User Guide to help you use and navigate the online catalog.
This is one of the handiest features, allowing you to build your own catalog with just the pages you are after!
