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in automotive industry) which need plex surfaces for modeling a single CADCAMCAE software isn’t sufficient. In this case the solution is to use some high performant specific modules from different CADCAMCAE software. 3. USING INTERNET FACILITIES IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT. The growth of the Inter today offers the newest wave of munication through electronic mail, file transfer, tel access, transaction applications, and much, much more. The most popular part of the Inter is the World Wide Web, where anyone can access hypertext pages with the click of a button. The popularity of the Inter has launched many social and ethical issues. Recently, the Inter has been criticized for its uncensored information, but has been praised for its educational value. In engineering field the inter is used for information dissemination and pany advertising. Today all the big pany offers many information about their products directly on the inter. In the mechanical engineering fields the most panies offer free catalogs about products (free documentation about technical characteristics, free 2D drawings and 3D models), prices, calculus technical software (ex: bearings SKF) etc. On the inter exists dedicated sites for all level of product development. Starting from standard catalogs for elementary parts (screws, bearings, pulleys, belts, gears etc) and finished with plex products (like industrial robots – ) the inter is a useful tool in design process for all kind of products. The disadvantage of the inter is the increasing diversity of information and the way of dissemination. The big problem is how to find utile information in this virtual space on inter. Free 3D gears catalog on inter 167 Finding useful 3D catalogs on inter Today on inter the information is structured into web pages. Almost all the panies in the world have web pages in order to offer more information about their products. There are 3 ways to search: 1 to find a pany into some specific engineering fields. If the name of pany is known usually the site is 。 3 to find some specific products (standard or not) for a specific engineering field it is remended to use dedicated portals. A portal is a site which contains information and links to specific sites for a domain. (ex. On inter in the engineering fields the panies presents their products structured in catalogs. There are two types of catalogs on web. One is in wellknown format PDF (portable document format). To find catalog of this type it is remended for searching to use, after specific keywords, the acronym “PDF”. The advantage using a pdf catalogs is that all the needed information about a product is presented into single file, which can be printed. The other is interactive online catalogs which have some advantages like: 1 to find all information for a product (including in pdf format), 2 online calculus software, 3 the product can be directly implemented into CADCAMCAE software. To find such types of catalogs it is re