CAD and CAE data: start with a scope and rights review

The engineering records a company made while designing and testing its own parts and products: native CAD models with their feature tree, the drawings used to make the parts, and CAE results such as finite element, fluid and thermal runs, with their setups.

• Complete records for each part or product: the requirement that started it, the native model and the manufacturing drawing.
• Simulation setups and results, counted together with the design they belong to.
• Machining programs and inspection or scan data, which add to a record where they exist.
• A body of complete projects the company owns, not a handful of loose files.

• Neutral exports on their own: they count only alongside the native files.
• Designs a firm delivered to a client and does not own.
• Generated or synthetic model sets, which are a different category and need a description of the collection first.
• Export-controlled or defense designs are flagged at the description stage and go through a separate review.

1. 01Describe the records in words: what engineering records exist, the workflow history and who owns them.
2. 02Send the description through the appraisal's Something else path. Include volume, years covered and who owns it.
3. 03Tell us what it is. We review every submission by hand. The description goes to case-by-case review, and we reply within two business days.
4. 04Share no project files until Rightmark asks for them. Specialist review comes first.

If you know a company that designs and tests its own parts and products, you can introduce it as a Rightmark Scout. Rightmark decides fit at specialist review, so a Scout never tells the owner that the data fits.