3Dmodelserver.com Expands Web-based File Translation and Repair Service to Additional CAD File Formats.Business Editors BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 29, 2000 Leading Internet-based service for manufacturing and design organizations now offers CAD file translation and repair for Pro/ENGINEER, CATIA A family of 2D and 3D CAD programs from IBM. CATIA was one of the first CAD programs to provide 3D solid modeling. The program was developed by Dassault Systems, a French aerospace company. and STEP Spatial Inc. (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :STY sty, in medicine, acute localized infection of one or more of the glands of the eyelid, with pain, swelling, and redness of the lid margin, usually caused by a staphylococcus infection. An external sty usually releases its pus and disappears in a day or so. ), the world's leading developer of Web-based business-to-business (B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ) interoperability solutions and open, component 3D modeling technology, announced the availability of CAD file translation and repair services for users of Pro/ENGINEER(R) and CATIA(R) CAD/CAM/CAE software systems, and for STEP format files, via its unique 3Dmodelserver.com (www.3dmodelserver.com) web site. The site, which already offers translation and repair for SAT and IGES (Initial Graphics Exchange Specification) An ANSI file format that is system independent and also intended for human interpretation. Evolving out of the U.S. format files, is following a rapid expansion plan that will deliver Web-based application See Web application. services to the broad market of manufacturing and design engineers looking to improve their workflow and data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. processes. 3Dmodelserver.com is an award-winning Internet-based application service launched by Spatial Inc. to provide business-critical interoperability services directly to manufacturing and design engineers via the World Wide Web. The site addresses problems experienced by manufacturers, suppliers and product designers wishing to share and distribute CAD engineering data throughout the manufacturing supply chain. Due to the diversity of CAD/CAM/CAE systems being used by these organizations, design data often cannot be shared among different systems. 3Dmodelserver.com eliminates these problems by providing a fully automated online service that enables translation and repair of corrupted data. The addition of the new file formats to the service means that an even larger set of manufacturing design organizations will be able to benefit from 3Dmodelserver.com. Steve Burzinski, CAD Lead Designer at Creative Foam Corp., and a customer at 3Dmodelserver.com commented, "Translating models from CATIA to other CAD systems in our company has been very difficult. Much of the geometry needs to be recreated, costing us time and money. I have uploaded several CATIA models onto 3Dmodelserver.com and have been very pleased at the integrity of the data that we received back - even data with complex geometry In mathematics, complex geometry is the study of complex manifolds and functions of many complex variables. . Compared to the other alternatives we have tried, 3Dmodelserver.com has supplied very encouraging results with a great turn-around time. The service offers us great value to our workflow process." "3Dmodelserver.com radically streamlines the movement of critical design data throughout the manufacturing supply chain. 3Dmodelserver.com's application service offers immediate, 24 by 7 access to online CAD/CAM/CAE translation and repair functionality which has traditionally required an expensive, time-consuming and labor intensive Labor Intensive A process or industry that requires large amounts of human effort to produce goods. Notes: A good example is the hospitality industry (hotels, restaurants, etc), they are considered to be very people-oriented. See also: Capital Intensive, Trading Dollars process to achieve. The addition of CATIA, Pro/ENGINEER and STEP formats to the service expands our reach to at least 80% of the addressable Reachable. When something is addressable, it can be identified and manipulated independently of its surroundings. For example, screen pixels and RAM memory are addressable. Each of the screen's picture elements can be individually turned on and off, and each of the memory's bytes can be market," said Bruce Morgan, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and President, Spatial Inc. 3Dmodelserver.com is currently able to handle model transactions for Pro/ENGINEER native files up to and including version 20, CATIA v.4.1.x and 4.2 native files, and STEP AP203 & AP214, plus SAT and IGES files. For a limited time, translation and repair of Pro/ENGINEER, CATIA and STEP files will be free to all registered members during Open Beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the . Registration is easy and free of charge or obligation. Simply point your Internet browser See Web browser. to http://www.3dmodelserver.com/ and choose the menu item for `register'. Once members complete the registration form, 3Dmodelserver.com will e-mail them confidential passwords and ID codes, allowing secure access to the site. At this point, you can upload IGES, SAT, STEP, CATIA and Pro/ENGINEER files for translation and repair. 3Dmodelserver.com charges for the repair and translation of SAT and IGES files on a per-megabyte basis. 3Dmodelserver.com currently has more than 5,800 members in 91 countries worldwide. The site, which was launched in October 1999, has been tracking an excess of 170,000 page views a month during the early part of 2000 and has received widespread press attention and acclaim, including an Award for Technology of The Year by INDUSTRYWEEK magazine, Cadence Editors' Choice awards, 1999, and NASA Tech Briefs NASA Tech Briefs is a magazine published by the National Aeronautics and Space Agency of the United States. This magazine is available, in either print form or electronically as PDF files, for free. Product of the Month, October 1999. About Spatial Inc. Spatial is the world's leading provider of Web-based, business-to-business (B2B) interoperability services and 3D solid modeling software, which sets global standards for product engineers, designers, software developers and manufacturing professionals. Spatial's 3Dmodelserver.com provides Web-based translation and healing of 3D CAD models, enabling rapid sharing of 3D engineering data across design and manufacturing firms, and their clientele, regardless of their installed CAD systems. Spatial's ACIS(R) 3D modeling kernel is the de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. 3D solid modeling standard, which dominates the CAD/CAM/CAE market worldwide. ACIS has been adopted by more than 550 licensees and is the foundation of over 209 applications used by over 1.5 million engineers and designers worldwide. Spatial's IntraVISION(R) interoperability solutions provide intuitive viewing, markup, measurement and conversion of all major 2D and 3D product data across project teams, engineering organizations and with business partners. The combination of products and services developed by Spatial allow licensees and users to capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. the improved integrity, advanced interoperability and rapid distribution of their design data, dramatically improving time-to-market and product development cycles across the entire organization. Spatial is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado The City of Boulder (, Mountain Time Zone) is a home rule municipality located in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. Boulder is the 11th most populous city in the State of Colorado, as well as the most populous city and the county , USA, and has offices in California, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit Spatial's Web site at http://www.spatial.com or call (303) 544-2900. Statements made in this news release that are not historical facts may be forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statement, and any projections related to 3Dmodelserver.com and PlanetCAD.com may be significantly different than those predicted by the Company. There are a number of important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by any forward-looking information. A description of risks and uncertainties attendant to Spatial Technology Inc. and its industry, and other factors which could affect the Company's financial results, are included in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including but not limited to the Company's annual report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 1998. Spatial Technology Inc., ACIS 3D Toolkit, SAT and PlanetCAD are trademarks of Spatial Technology Inc. ACIS and IntraVISION are registered trademarks of Spatial Technology Inc. All other products are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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