SAE International offers a subscription to the standards. 

Purchasing a subscription to the standards is an important step; however, getting engineers to actively use the standards isn’t easy. The challenge with the PDF standards is that someone must manually create the 3D CAD models of the SAE AS standard they need in their designs. It’s a lot of work.

Many government projects and private industry projects require the use of SAE standards. Choosing to ignore the standards or use outdated versions of the standards at best leads to delays in the project, and at worst, leads to litigation from equipment malfunction. The standards are continually updated, which makes it challenging to ensure constant compliance for companies that create CAD libraries based on the standards specs for themselves.

SAE recognizes the challenge companies face when creating their own standards CAD library. Because of this, SAE partnered with CADENAS PARTsolutions to create certified 3D CAD models of the SAE AS standard.

The SAE AS certified 3D models are available for consumption in three ways:

1. Through the online portal
2. PARTS4CAD direct CAD plugin (Inventor, CREO, Solid Works, Solid Edge)
3. PARTsolutions Desktop with a direct CAD plugin (All major CAD + PLM + ERP Integrations)

To find out more about getting access to the standards and the 3D CAD models, click on the “Learn more about digital standards” link and fill out the form in the sidebar.