2016 was an exciting year for Samtec, with several major product releases, a few major software and website releases, and a couple of significant company acquisitions. We've done our best to detail all of it and more on The Samtec Blog, along with several pieces of content to help you solve your design problems along the way. Here are our top 11 most popular articles of 2016. Enjoy! Samtec Announces Acquisition of nMode Solutions and Triton Microtechnologies In May of 2016, Samtec … [Read more...]
November Web Updates to Samtec.com
November completed another solid month of web updates to Samtec.com. While there was no new application software released, we took this time to make a few key upgrades to some of our existing software to continue to enhance your user experience. Here are the major web updates for the month of November. New About Samtec Experience In this new "About Samtec" experience, we'll take you through our story, which started in 1976 with our founder Sam, and continues into today. Through the … [Read more...]
A Nerd’s Eye View Into the Search Technology Behind Solutionator 2.0
The newest version of Solutionator, our parametric search tool that allows you to design a mated set in a minute or less, has been rolling for a couple of months now on Samtec.com. As we detailed in this introductory post, Solutionator boasts several powerful features to help you design your mated set solution in under a minute, including: Multi-select dropdown filtersInstant match search capabilitiesKeyword, part number, and series matchingRange based filtersBreadcrumb history of your … [Read more...]
October Web Updates to Samtec.com
If you're a regular user of Samtec.com, October was a great month for you! We brought you some exciting new design tools, a major homepage refresh, and a couple of huge new pieces of content for you to devour. Here are the major web updates for the month of October. Solutionator 2.0 Continues to Evolve In September, we brought you the all new release of our Solutionator tool, which is a parametric search tool designed to help you design your mated connector set in a minute or … [Read more...]
How to Use Samtec’s Solutionator 2.0 Parametric Search to Find Your Mated Set Solution
In the last post on Solutionator, when we announced it's official launch on Samtec.com, we took a high level view at some of its key features. One of those features was the powerful parametric search filters that drive product matching for this tool. In this post, we'd like to take you on a deep dive of every element of these filters and how they can help you find exactly the product you need. To follow along with this post, you can pull up Solutionator 2.0 in another tab. Multi … [Read more...]
Full-Featured Parametric Search Now Available on Samtec.com – Solutionator 2.0 Has Been Launched
With trillions (yes, trillions) of different part combinations available, it makes perfect sense that the #1 request from Samtec.com web users over the last couple of years has been a parametric search. This feedback from one customer said it best. With the release of our original Solutionator, we brought many of the features requested above to Samtec.com. The drawback was, we needed to split it into several smaller data sets for performance reasons, which limited filtering options. … [Read more...]
[Video] How to Download 3D Models Easily on Samtec.com
As I write this post, Samtec.com users are downloading over 1,000 3D models per day and climbing. This is possible through a few different tools we've built for you on Samtec.com, the most recent of which is the release of our Part Configurator tool, which allows you to configure any permutation of a supported product and download a 3D model in just seconds. This tool also supports all modern browsers (even Internet Explorer!) as well as iPads. To make downloading your 3D models even … [Read more...]
Next Generation “Samtec Reality” Virtual Product App Now Available
The next generation of the Samtec Reality app combines all the great features of our two virtual product experiences – Augmented Reality and Virtual Product Explorer – into one amazing “super app” designed to provide an even more in-depth, user-friendly way to explore our latest technologies and products. The new Samtec Reality app is now available from the Apple App Store for use with iPad Air or newer and with any iPhone 5 or newer. Already have the new app? Click here to print the … [Read more...]
The Technology Behind Delivering Your Technical Documentation Instantly
One of the most raved about features of Samtec.com is the ease-of-access and wide variety of technical documentation that is available throughout the website, all of which is available without jumping through a bunch of hoops. Or as we web nerds like to call it - "Suddendocs," which stems from our Sudden Service core value. From our high resolution full-line catalog, to our in-depth product design guides, to our huge array (pun intended) of drawings, footprints, electrical models, layout … [Read more...]
Six Time-Saving Features of Samtec.com You Might Not Know About
The software engineers on the Samtec web team work diligently every day to bring you the experience you're used to on Samtec.com. While many of our tools are front and center, there are some useful features that you may not be aware of. To help save you even more time, this post will walk you through a few of these that will make your day just a little bit easier. Visually Exploring Product Lines - Samtec Picture Search One of the largest requests that we get from web users … [Read more...]