Results of the photo competition celebrating the TraceParts platform's 15th birthday

To coincide with the 15th birthday of its platform, TraceParts challenged its users to take part in a competition

Saint-Romain, France, July 6, 2016 - TraceParts, a world-leading supplier of 3D digital content for engineering, and RS Components, a global distributor of products for all engineers, teamed up to offer TracePartsOnline.net users an original photo competition.


To celebrate the 15th birthday of its online CAD platform, TraceParts held a photo competition during June 2016. Entrants had to submit a photo featuring the logo of the TraceParts platforms 15th birthday. Participants could take a picture of themselves or other people and settings with the 15th anniversary logo of the TraceParts platform.

The best photos were posted on the TraceParts Facebook page. In all, close to 200 photos featuring the logo of the TraceParts platforms anniversary were entered.

Facebook users then voted by liking their favorite photo. The winning photo received 606 likes, and its author won the latest GoPro Hero4 camera.

Check out the pictures of the most beautiful entries at www.facebook.com/TraceParts-136939456295/


A big thank you to all participants for their creativity!


About TraceParts

TraceParts is one of the worlds leading providers of 3D digital content for engineering. As part of the Trace Group founded in 1989, the company provides powerful web-based solutions, such as CAD part libraries, electronic catalogs and product configurators. TraceParts also provides digital marketing services to help part manufacturers, software publishers and computer hardware vendors promote their products and services and generate high-quality B2B sales leads.

The TracePartsOnline.net portal is available free-of-charge to millions of CAD users worldwide. It provides access to hundreds of supplier catalogs and more than 100 million CAD models and product data-sheets that are suited to design, purchasing, manufacturing and maintenance processes.

About RS Components

RS Components and Allied Electronics are the trading brands of Electrocomponents plc, the global distributor for engineers. With operations in 32 countries, we offer more than 500,000 products through the internet, catalogues and at trade counters to over one million customers, shipping around 44,000 parcels a day. Our products, sourced from 2,500 leading suppliers, include electronic components, electrical, automation and control, and test and measurement equipment, and engineering tools and consumables.
Electrocomponents is listed on the London Stock Exchange and in the last financial year ended 31 March 2015 had revenues of £1.27bn.
For more information, please visit the website at www.rs-online.com

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