Abstract:More attentions are paid to the secondary development of CAD/CAM , where building one,s own database for CAD/CAM software is very important. Based on the famous CAD/CAM software PRO/E, we studied the way of building an external database by integrating dll program. The dll program was written by VC.NET with ADO technology. With the integration,, we built a database system of cutting tools required in industry.