Get started with Assembly Atlas
Assembly Atlas turns your STEP assemblies into 3D parts catalogs your customers can take apart, search and order from, keeps owners coming back for service, and quotes machined and cut parts online. This guide covers everything your team sets up.
Build a catalogFrom a STEP file to a published, exploded 3D catalog.
Add it to your siteThe embed code, part links and the hosted parts portal.
Add to cartShopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce or any store.
Requests and webhooksWhere parts requests go, and what they contain.
How it fits together#
- You export a STEP file of an assembly from your CAD system, plus a BOM if you have one.
- The catalog is built in the Assembly Atlas editor: every part named and numbered, priced, and exploded step by step. Import your BOM to fill in part numbers, descriptions and prices. We build it for you, or on the Catalog and Integrated plans your team can do it themselves.
- You publish it and paste the embed code on your website, link customers to the hosted catalog and parts portal, or put a QR code on the machine.
- Customers find their part by taking the model apart, searching or entering their serial number, in their own language, then add it to your store’s cart or send you a parts request with the part numbers filled in.
- Owners keep coming back: they register their machine, see what maintenance is due with the parts one click away, get reminder emails, see bulletins and recalls for their serial number, and file warranty claims with photos.
- You see what it’s worth in Results each month, and what you’re missing in Missed sales each week.
Everything it does#
| For | What | Read |
|---|---|---|
| Your catalogs | Exploded 3D catalogs from STEP, step-by-step teardowns, service notes, confidential parts removed, BOM import, version history. | Build a catalog |
| Your website | Embed on any page, hosted catalog and parts portal, links to a part or with the parts already in the request, QR code labels, Spanish, French and German. | Add it to your site, QR codes, Languages |
| Selling parts | Prices and stock from one CSV, parts that fit each serial number and their replacements, service kits, add to cart in Shopify, WooCommerce or BigCommerce, parts requests by email or webhook. | Prices, Serials, Kits, Add to cart, Requests |
| Dealers | A sign-in portal with each dealer’s own prices, orders with a PO, confirmed and shipped from the console. | Dealers |
| Owners and service | Registered machines, maintenance schedules and reminders, service bulletins and recalls emailed to the owners they affect, warranty claims with photos. | Machines, Bulletins, Warranty |
| Machine shops | Instant quotes from STEP and DXF files on your rate card, laser, waterjet and plasma pricing for flat parts, quotes sent and accepted online with a PO, reminders before they expire. | Instant quoting |
| Knowing what it’s worth | Results each month (orders, quotes, requests at list price, owners reached), Missed sales each week, and reports on what people look at, search for and can’t find. | Reports |
| Print and video | A numbered parts manual from any catalog, and the teardown as a video. | Manuals and animations |
Sign in to the console#
Everything on your account lives in the console at assemblyatlas.com/console. We send the first person on your team an invite; they can invite the rest from Team. The tabs:
| Tab | What it’s for |
|---|---|
| Overview | Your key, the embed code for each catalog, the parts portal link and its iframe code, the quote link, and the websites your key works on. |
| Results | Missed sales this week, and what Assembly Atlas did for you each month. See Results. |
| Catalogs | Live catalogs, drafts, New catalog (opens the editor), version history with Restore, QR codes. |
| Part links | Send a customer a link that opens their machine with the parts they need already in the request. See Send a customer their parts. |
| Price list, Kits | Prices, stock, serial ranges, dealer prices, store ids and translations; service kits. See Prices and stock. |
| Bulletins, Maintenance, Warranty, Owners | Service bulletins and recalls, maintenance schedules, warranty claims to review, and registered owners and their machines. |
| Quoting | Your rate card, cutting rates, quote terms (Quoting and Integrated). |
| Requests | Every parts request and quote request, newest first. Open a quote to price it and send it. |
| Dealers, Dealer orders | Invite dealers and handle their orders (Catalog and Integrated). |
| Analytics | Reports and CSV downloads. See Reports. |
| Team | Who on your team can sign in. |
| Settings | Where requests go (email, webhook), the emails you get, languages, and your online store. |
What each plan includes#
Every plan with catalogs includes the 3D catalogs, part numbers and prices, parts requests, confidential parts removed, embedding on your own sites, reports, and printable parts manuals. The plans differ in these:
| Feature | Pilot | Catalog | Integrated | Quoting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live catalogs | 5 | 50 | No limit | None |
| Edit and publish catalogs yourselves | — | Yes | Yes | — |
| Add to cart in your store | — | Yes | Yes | — |
| Dealer portal | — | Yes | Yes | — |
| Webhooks (Zapier, Slack, CRM) | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Instant CNC quoting | — | — | Yes | Yes |
Prices and the rest of the details are on the plans page. If you need a feature your plan doesn’t have, ask us about moving up.
What to send us#
- A STEP file (
.stpor.step) of each assembly, exported as an assembly with its part structure, not merged into one solid. AP203, AP214 and AP242 all work. - A BOM as a CSV, if you have one: part number, description, price and material per part. See Import a BOM for the columns.
- Which parts are confidential, if any. They’re removed from what customers can load, not just hidden.
- The websites the catalog will be on, including any staging site.
Getting a good STEP export#
- Export the top-level assembly, so subassemblies come through as subassemblies.
- Give parts real names in CAD. A part named
PRT0042shows up as that until someone renames it. - Leave out simplified or envelope bodies, and suppress parts that aren’t in the product as shipped.
- If part numbers live in CAD properties rather than names, send the BOM as well; we match it to the parts.